ENGLISH

Conservatism from the French Revolution to the 1990s

By Jo Campling (eds.) , Pekka Suvanto (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-1-349-25890-1, 978-1-349-25888-8, 978-0-312-17644-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25888-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
150 MB (156852793 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VII, 224\231
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Political History; Political Theory; History of Fr

Description

Suvanto has studied the political and ideological conservatism of Britain, the United States, Germany and France with references to Scandinavian countries. He also discusses the nature of traditionalism and its influence on the development of conservatism. Suvanto emphasizes the pragmatism and the consistency of conservatism. It has played a great part in the collapse of communism. Suvanto's book was first published in Finnish in 1994 and it was chosen as the best historical book in Finland in that year.

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