This work provides both a short account of the doctrine of conservatism, and a selection of extracts from key writings to elucidate its argument. Robert Eccleshall traces the history of the doctrine from its origins in divine-right monarchy to the current preoccupation with the enterprise culture. Challenging the accepted view of conservatives as pragmatists who eschew philosophical abstractions, he argues that they have been consistent in selectively using principles to construct a distinctive image of the social order. They have emphasized, on the one hand, the military virtues of duty, obedience, loyalty and submission to the authority of the state, and, on the other, the need for political leadership by a natural aristocracy or entrepeneurial elite. Also highlighed is the persistent continuing tension within the conservative party between, on the one hand free-marketeers, and on the other patrician tories, who favour government intervention in the economy and the "one nation" approach to the social order.
The conservative writers from whose works extracts are provided include Bolingbroke, Burke, Peel, Shaftesbury, Chamberlain, Macmillan, Butler, Tebbit and Thatcher, but also lesser known figures ofter ignored by other scholars.
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Principles galore Notes From the Restoration to the French Revolution Notes; Readings: Robert Sanderson (1587-1663); Sir Robert Filmer (1588- 1653); Offspring Blackall (1654-1716); Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751); John Reeves (1752?-1829); Edmuund Burke (1729-97); Edmund Burke Peel paternalism and political economy, 1827-45 Notes; Readings: Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850); Sir Robert Peel; Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835); Michael Thomas Sadler; Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85); Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81) Tory democracy 1867-1918 Notes; Readings: Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield; Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914); Frederick Edwin Smith, first Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930); Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1836-1931) Survival of the fitest (1880-1953) Notes; Readings: Alexander Hugh Bruce, sixth Baron Balfour of Burleigh (1849-1921); William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923); Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, second Baronet (1875-1954) A middle way (1924-64) Notes; Readings: Harold Macmillan, first Earl of Stockton (1894-1986); Wuinton Megarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907- ); Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (1902-82) Turning the collectivist tide (1963- Notes; Readings: John Enoch Powell (1912- ); Sir Rhodes Boyson (1925-); Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph of Portsoken (1918-e); Margaret Hilda Thatcher (1925- ); Norman Beresford Tebbit (1931-).
