Cosmopolitan Conservatisms
Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700-1930)
Published on 12. May 2021
Book
Hardback
452 pages
978-90-04-44523-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a fresh picture of the historical development of "conservatism" from the late 17th to the early 20th century. The book explores the broader geographies and transnational dimensions of conservatism and counterrevolution. The contributions show how counterrevolutionary concepts did not emerge in isolation, but resulted from the interplay between ideas, media, networks, and institutions. Like 19th-century liberalism and socialism, conservatism was the product of traveling ideas and people. This study describes how exile, mobility, and international sociability shaped counterrevolutionary identities. The volume presents case studies on the intersection of political philosophy, scholarly practices, international politics, and governmental bureaucracies. Furthermore, Cosmopolitan Conservatisms offers new approaches to the study of conservatism, including the prisms of ecology, gender, and digital history.
Contributors are: Alicia Montoya, Carolina Armenteros, Simon Burrows,Wyger Velema, Michiel van Dam, Glauco Schettini, Nigel Aston, Brian Vick, Lien Verpoest, Beatrice de Graaf, Jean-Philippe Luis, Joep Leerssen, Amerigo Caruso, Joris van Eijnatten, Emily Jones, Aymeric Xu, and Axel Schneider.
Contributors are: Alicia Montoya, Carolina Armenteros, Simon Burrows,Wyger Velema, Michiel van Dam, Glauco Schettini, Nigel Aston, Brian Vick, Lien Verpoest, Beatrice de Graaf, Jean-Philippe Luis, Joep Leerssen, Amerigo Caruso, Joris van Eijnatten, Emily Jones, Aymeric Xu, and Axel Schneider.
Reviews / Votes
"Les 17 contributions (plus l'introduction) de ce volume amorcent une relecture importante de l'histoire du conservatisme sous l'angle de sa genese et de sa formation transnationale [...] chaque chapitre met en evidence une facette particuliere de ces conservatismes, ce qui explique l'utilisation du pluriel pour englober la diversite geographique (Grande-Bretagne, France, Espagne, Pays-Bas, Allemagne, Russie, Chine) et chronologique (du XVIIe au XXIe siecle)."---- Miriam Franchina, in: Francia-Recensio, March 2023, pp.19-21
"An important contribution to the understanding of conservatism [...] as in itself a method of opening up existing structures of thought to imaginative critique."
---- David McGrogan, in: Global Intellectual History , October 2023
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-44523-9 (9789004445239)
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Persons
Matthijs Lok is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History (2019), Eurocentrism in European History and Memory(2019) and a themed IJCHM issue on the Global Counter-Enlightenment (2019).
Friedemann Pestel is Lecturer in Modern European History at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg. In 2015 he published his book Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Die monarchiens als Revolutionsemigranten (Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Monarchiens as Emigres of the French Revolution), Oldenbourg-De Gruyter).
Juliette Reboul is a postdoctoral researcher Radboud University, The Netherlands. She has written and edited works on the French counterrevolutionary emigration in the late 18th century, including French Emigration to Great Britain (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).
Friedemann Pestel is Lecturer in Modern European History at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg. In 2015 he published his book Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Die monarchiens als Revolutionsemigranten (Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Monarchiens as Emigres of the French Revolution), Oldenbourg-De Gruyter).
Juliette Reboul is a postdoctoral researcher Radboud University, The Netherlands. She has written and edited works on the French counterrevolutionary emigration in the late 18th century, including French Emigration to Great Britain (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Introduction
?Matthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel and Juliette Reboul
PART 1: Conservative Enlightenments
2 Popular Conservatisms and Ecological Consciousness: 18th-Century Traditions of Nature Writing (Noel-Antoine Pluche, Alexander Pope)
?Alicia C. Montoya
3 Eclectic, Conservative, Cosmopolitan: The Linguistics and Anthropology of Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro (1753-1809)
?Carolina Armenteros
4 Counter-revolution, Conservatism and Conspiracy in the Cosmopolitan Public Sphere from 1770s to 1790s: Mallet Du Pan, Barruel and the Philosophes
?Simon Burrows
5 Enlightenment against Revolution: The Genesis of Dutch Conservatism
?Wyger R.E. Velema
6 A Christian Cosmopolitanism: Pauline Universalism and Cynic Apostolicism during the Brabant Revolt (1787-1790)
?Michiel Van Dam
7 18th-Century Crusaders: The War against France and the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1789-99
?Glauco Schettini
PART 2: Transnational Networks and Institutions
8 Survival Strategies: Jacobite Adaptability, 1689-1789, and Counter-revolutionary Prototypes
?Nigel Aston
9 Transnational Networks, Salon Sociability, and Multilateral Exchanges in the Study of Conservatism during and after the Revolutionary Era
?Brian Vick
10 The Ancien Regime and the Jeune Premier: The Birth of Russian Conservatism in Vienna (1803-12)
?Lien Verpoest
11 How Conservative Was the Holy Alliance Really? Tsar Alexander's Offer of Radical Redemption to the Western World
?Beatrice de Graaf
12 France and Spain: A Common Territory of Anti-Revolution (End of the 18th Century-1880)
?Jean-Philippe Luis?
13 Romancing the Monarchy: Romantic Queens and Soft Power
?Joep Leerssen
PART 3: Conservative Modernisms
14 Conservative Women Writers: A Transnational History of Literary Bestsellers Opposing Liberalism and Early Feminism, c. 1850-1900
?Amerigo Caruso
15 Muddling Through: The Rhetoric on Conservatism and Revolution in the London Times, 1789-2010
?Joris van Eijnatten
16 Languages of Transnational Conservatism: The Emergence of "Left" and "Right" in Britain
?Emily Jones
17 Western Conservative Ideas and Politics in China from the 1910s to the 1930s
?Aymeric Xu
18 Modernity and the Question of Conservatism: Reflections Based on the Chinese Case
?Axel Schneider
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Introduction
?Matthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel and Juliette Reboul
PART 1: Conservative Enlightenments
2 Popular Conservatisms and Ecological Consciousness: 18th-Century Traditions of Nature Writing (Noel-Antoine Pluche, Alexander Pope)
?Alicia C. Montoya
3 Eclectic, Conservative, Cosmopolitan: The Linguistics and Anthropology of Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro (1753-1809)
?Carolina Armenteros
4 Counter-revolution, Conservatism and Conspiracy in the Cosmopolitan Public Sphere from 1770s to 1790s: Mallet Du Pan, Barruel and the Philosophes
?Simon Burrows
5 Enlightenment against Revolution: The Genesis of Dutch Conservatism
?Wyger R.E. Velema
6 A Christian Cosmopolitanism: Pauline Universalism and Cynic Apostolicism during the Brabant Revolt (1787-1790)
?Michiel Van Dam
7 18th-Century Crusaders: The War against France and the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1789-99
?Glauco Schettini
PART 2: Transnational Networks and Institutions
8 Survival Strategies: Jacobite Adaptability, 1689-1789, and Counter-revolutionary Prototypes
?Nigel Aston
9 Transnational Networks, Salon Sociability, and Multilateral Exchanges in the Study of Conservatism during and after the Revolutionary Era
?Brian Vick
10 The Ancien Regime and the Jeune Premier: The Birth of Russian Conservatism in Vienna (1803-12)
?Lien Verpoest
11 How Conservative Was the Holy Alliance Really? Tsar Alexander's Offer of Radical Redemption to the Western World
?Beatrice de Graaf
12 France and Spain: A Common Territory of Anti-Revolution (End of the 18th Century-1880)
?Jean-Philippe Luis?
13 Romancing the Monarchy: Romantic Queens and Soft Power
?Joep Leerssen
PART 3: Conservative Modernisms
14 Conservative Women Writers: A Transnational History of Literary Bestsellers Opposing Liberalism and Early Feminism, c. 1850-1900
?Amerigo Caruso
15 Muddling Through: The Rhetoric on Conservatism and Revolution in the London Times, 1789-2010
?Joris van Eijnatten
16 Languages of Transnational Conservatism: The Emergence of "Left" and "Right" in Britain
?Emily Jones
17 Western Conservative Ideas and Politics in China from the 1910s to the 1930s
?Aymeric Xu
18 Modernity and the Question of Conservatism: Reflections Based on the Chinese Case
?Axel Schneider
Index