What is conservatism? -- Glorious revolution and its heritage -- Burke, tradition, and the French Revolution -- Pitt and the wars of the French Revolution -- American Revolution -- Federalists -- Conservatives in the American south -- Northern Antebellum conservatism -- Opposing the Great Reform Act -- Robert Peel and the conservative revival -- Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill -- Conservatism and the American Civil War -- Industrialists, mugwumps, traditionalists -- Disraeli and Tory imperialism -- Rise of labour and the House of Lords -- Idea of Anglo-Saxon supremacy -- No vote for women -- American conservatives after World War I -- Opposing the New Deal -- The Tory Party from Bonar Law to Churchill -- Reaction to labour and nationalization -- American anticommunism and McCarthyism -- American traditionalists -- Libertarianism -- National Review and Barry Goldwater -- Upheavals of the 1960s -- Neoconservatives -- Neoconservatives and foreign policy -- Christian conservatives and the New Right -- Margaret Thatcher's counterrevolution -- Monarchs and prime ministers -- Reagan triumphant -- End of the Cold War -- Paleoconservatives and Theoconservatives -- Culture wars -- Unresolved paradoxes.
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