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ISBN:
9781501300738
Content:
Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: One Nation, Food for Thought -- Chapter 2. Ethos and Doctrine in the Conservative Party -- Chapter 3. The Thracian Boxer and Ideological Movement -- Chapter 4. Skilled Propaganda from Ill-Intentioned "Friends" -- Chapter 5. Factions, Tendencies and "Bondstones"? -- Chapter 6. One Nation, but Which? -- Chapter 7. "One Europe or No Nation"? -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Further Refreshment at the Springs of Doctrine -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"This book reveals the true nature of Conservative Party politics by examining the centrality of the myth of One Nation. The use of the term One Nation clearly matters for Conservative Party politics not just in its 'ancestral' use emanating from Disraeli's 1840s novels and his late nineteenth century rhetoric but also through Baldwin's speeches and to the failure of John Major to replicate such a serene and contented image of the Nation in the 1990s. But, as a concept for the Conservatives, it means so much more than mere imagery. It has been successfully utilized in their 'palaeontological' approach to their history in order to give the impression that only the Party puts 'Nation' before any sectional interest, that only the Conservative Party, as the national Party, has the ability to assuage and balance the plurality of competing interests on behalf of the Nation. It is because of this long and successful utilization of the term 'One Nation' that so many within the Party are so keen to lay claim to it."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826489746
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441123695
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Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781501300738
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