Neo-tories : the revolt of British conservatives against democracy and political modernity (1929-1939) /
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 1.1. What is a Conservative?
- 1.2. Neo-Tories in British research
- 1.3. `conservative revolution' in Europe?
- 1.4. Methods, structure, investigation period, sources
- 2. Lost Generation? A Group Biography of the Neo-Tories
- 2.1. `lost' generation
- 2.2. Journalists and politicians on the right wing of the Conservative Party
- 2.3. `What I am afraid of is the feminine man': masculine ideology and anti-feminism
- 3. Counter-Narratives of History: The Fight for Interpretation
- 3.1. `The lie about the War': war memoirs in opposition to a pacifist interpretation
- 3.1.1. First World War in British public opinion
- 3.1.2. war books in the British press
- 3.1.3. war books controversy
- 3.1.4. anti-pacifism of the Neo-Tories
- 3.2. historical view of the Neo-Tories
- 3.2.1. Tory interpretation of history
- 3.2.2. `The Inglorious Rebellion': 1688--9 and the Neo-Tories
- 3.2.3. Merry England of the Middle Ages as a golden age
- 4. Neo-Toryism as a World View
- 4.1. Racial and civilizational downfall: degeneration as a central theme
- 4.1.1. Degeneration and national decline? A hundred years of eugenic thought in Britain
- 4.1.2. fear of British degeneration in the interwar years
- 4.1.3. Degeneration in the Neo-Tory line of argument
- 4.1.4. city as place of degeneration: anti-urbanism in Neo-Tory political thought
- 4.2. Democracy on trial: critique of the system in the land of the Mother of Parliaments
- 4.2.1. `The twilight of democracy': the end of the democracies as a historical process
- 4.2.2. tyranny of the masses: critiques of democracy in Britain after 1929
- 4.2.3. `The system is not good in England, but in India it will be much worse': critiques of democracy and the rebellion against the government's plans for India
- 4.3. True Toryism: visions of a radical conservatism in opposition to the Conservative Party
- 4.3.1. revival of conservatism as an intellectual force: Criterion, Ashridge, Right Book Club
- 4.3.2. Neo-Toryism of the English Review Group
- 4.3.3. Stanley Baldwin: the anti-hero of the Neo-Tories
- 4.3.4. Absolute monarchy and the corporatist state as goals of Neo-Tory political thought
- 4.4. Italy as example? The response to Italian Fascism among the Neo-Tories
- 4.4.1. Fascism and universalism
- 4.4.2. Neo-Tories' concept of Europe
- 4.4.3. difficulty of a positive reaction to Fascism due to the impact of violence
- 4.5. `Little use to expel Jews to-day, for we all have become Jews': the consensual antisemitism of the Neo-Tories
- 4.5.1. British antisemitism: a `special path in reverse'?
- 4.5.2. Theoretically anchored antisemitism as a part of the anti-Whig historiography
- 4.5.3. Fighting Judaized values rather than expelling the Jews
- 4.5.4. Appeasement and antisemitism
- 5. Political Practice on the Right Wing of the Conservative Party
- 5.1. From the world of letters to the world of politics: from the establishment of the Everyman magazine to the Lord Lloyd dinner in autumn 1933
- 5.1.1. Lord Lloyd as British dictator: Neo-Tory plans in summer and autumn 1933
- 5.1.2. Lord Lloyd dinner in November 1933
- 5.2. `We do not wear a black shirt': political clubs in proximity and in contrast to the British Union of Fascists
- 5.2.1. formation of the January Club
- 5.2.2. January Club and the Windsor Club
- 5.2.3. British Movement
- 5.3. Friends of Nationalist Spain: successes and failures of a rightist intellectual pressure group
- 5.3.1. significance of Spain to the Neo-Tories
- 5.3.2. Neo-Tories and the Franco rebellion
- 5.3.3. Friends of Nationalist Spain
- 5.3.4. Guernica and Neo-Tory propaganda
- 5.4. Appeasement as focus and finale of the Neo-Tories
- 5.4.1. ideologically motivated appeasement policy of the Neo-Tories
- 5.4.2. Austria, Munich, Prague, Danzig: waypoints in the policy of appeasement
- 5.4.3. Appeasement and Neo-Tory patriotism before and after the outbreak of the Second World War
- 6. Conclusion.