Nigel Keohane
Ashgate
Hardback
264
Two great success stories dominated British political history in the twentieth century the nation's double victory in two terrible 'total' wars and the Conservative Party's repeated dominance in parliament and at the ballot box. In this new study it is shown how these two stories are interlinked and how each depended on patriotic belief and an ability to adapt to circumstances. The book demonstrates how the predominance of patriotism played a major role in moulding Conservative unity shaping electoral fortunes shaping ideological cohesion as well as deconstructing the 'Irish Unionist' principles upon which the party had been centred previously.Filling the historiographical gap created by an overemphasis upon its rival Liberal and Labour parties and using previously unused party sources this study sheds new light on many aspects of the war of Conservative Party history and its regeneration following three disastrous general election defeats in succession and of British politics in the twentieth century.
Ashgate
Hardback
264
Two great success stories dominated British political history in the twentieth century the nation's double victory in two terrible 'total' wars and the Conservative Party's repeated dominance in parliament and at the ballot box. In this new study it is shown how these two stories are interlinked and how each depended on patriotic belief and an ability to adapt to circumstances. The book demonstrates how the predominance of patriotism played a major role in moulding Conservative unity shaping electoral fortunes shaping ideological cohesion as well as deconstructing the 'Irish Unionist' principles upon which the party had been centred previously.Filling the historiographical gap created by an overemphasis upon its rival Liberal and Labour parties and using previously unused party sources this study sheds new light on many aspects of the war of Conservative Party history and its regeneration following three disastrous general election defeats in succession and of British politics in the twentieth century.