'This deft and intelligent examination of conservative thought combines a strong emphasis on its comparative history with an acute understanding of its conceptual flexibility. Neill applies his highly effective analysis to the diverse contexts that reveal and illuminate conservatism's nuances and layers.'Michael Freeden, University of Oxford'Over the last two centuries conservatives have stood for very different things at different times. Edmund Neill does full justice to this diversity of conservatisms while convincingly demonstrating that it makes sense to analyse it as a single political tradition.'Stuart Jones, Manchester University
Chapter 1 Defining ConservatismChapter 2 Conservatism from the French Revolution to 1848Chapter 3 Conservatism from 1848 to the First World WarChapter 4 Conservatism in the Era of the Two World WarsChapter 5 Conservatism from the 1960s to the PresentEpilogueNotesBibliography
Edmund Neill is Lecturer in Modern History at the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University.