Title From Jacobite to conservative : reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 / James J. Sack

Edition First paperback edition Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm Contents 1. The right-wing press from Jacobitism to the Reform crisis: a discussion of sources -- 2. The spirit of the English Right in an age of revolution -- 3. Tories and Jacobites in the mid and late eighteenth century --4. Toryism redivivus -- 5. The British monarchy and the Right, 1760-1832 -- 6. Parliamentary reform and the Right, 1750-1832 -- 7. Tory humanitarianism and political economy, 1760-1832 -- 8. The Right and Protestantism. The High Church. Dissenters. Evangelicals -- 9. The Right and Catholicism Summary Although Professor Sack has consulted a wide range of unpublished and printed correspondence, pamphlets and sermons, his chief sources have been numerous 'Church and King' newspapers, journals, and magazines. From this right-wing press, Sack has uncovered a novel way of looking at political, social and religious issues in the age of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. His central contention is that the defence of the Church of England, rather than nationalistic impulses, monarchical sentiment, or even economic self-interest, was the abiding concern of pre-1832 British conservatism What did it mean to be a 'conservantive' in Britain before such terminology was even used? Is it possible or even desirable to encapsulate such diverse individuals as George III, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, J. W. Croker and the Younger Pitt within one political nomenclature? What is the relationship between the Jacobitism or Toryism of the early eighteenth century and the ideology of loyalist Englishmen of the latter Georgian period? James Sack confronts these questions in discussing an evolving right-wing mentalite, expressed in attitudes towards the past, the monarchy, humanitarianism, reform, and religion Analysis Great Britain Politics History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index Subject Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Jacobites. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056908 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800-1837. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056910 LC no. 93000155 ISBN 0521432669 (hardback)

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