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Disraeli defined the Conservative approach and strengthened Conservatism as a grassroots political force. Conservatism no longer was the philosophical defence of the landed aristocracy but had been refreshed into redefining its commitment to the ideals of order, both secular and religious, expanding imperialism, strengthened monarchy, and a ...
Burke is regarded by most political historians in the English-speaking world as a liberal conservative [150] and the father of modern British conservatism. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] Burke was utilitarian and empirical in his arguments while Joseph de Maistre , a fellow European conservative, was more providentialist and sociological and deployed ...
The Conservative Order was the period in political history of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. From 1815 to 1830, a conscious program by conservative statesmen, including Metternich and Castlereagh , was put into place to contain revolution and revolutionary forces by restoring the old orders, particularly the previously-ruling ...
The Party of Patriotism: The Conservative Party and the First World War (Ashgate, 2010) Laybourn, Keith. British political leaders: a biographical dictionary (2001). Powell, David. British Politics, 1910–1935: The Crisis of the Party System (2004) Ramsden, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics (2005) excerpt and ...
The modern conservative political movement, combining elements from both traditional conservatism and libertarianism, emerged following World War II, but had its immediate political roots in reaction to the New Deal. Those two branches of conservatism allied post World War I anti-communism thought.
Conservatives were also early to embrace nationalism, which was previously associated with liberalism and the Revolution in France. [51] Another early French conservative, François-René de Chateaubriand, espoused a romantic opposition to modernity, contrasting its emptiness with the 'full heart' of traditional faith and loyalty. [52]
Soon after, in 1818, defenders of the French Old Regime founded a pro-monarchy journal, Le Conservateur, that first used "conservative" in the modern, political sense. The magazine listed what it ...
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of, or (depending on the historian) immediately preceded, the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There is no exact date that marks the beginning or end of the period and its extent may vary depending on the area ...