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Conclusions

Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA. His books include Crisis of Empire (2015), Military Strategy: A Global History (2020) and Naval Warfare (2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Contesting History : Narratives of Public History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Truth and Reconciliation A ‘peace and reconciliation centre’ is to be built on the site of the Maze prison in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, where, in the 1980s, ten Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army...

Introduction

Mark Garnett

Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of The British Coalition Government, 2010–2015 (2016), Exploring British Politics, 4th Edition (2016) and Conservatism and Ideology (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Conservative Moments : Reading Conservative Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...In a vivid phrase, the editors of another volume in this series have observed that ‘To write about a tradition of political thought as rich as liberalism is something like trying to carry water in a leaky bucket...

Into the Future

Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA. His books include Crisis of Empire (2015), Military Strategy: A Global History (2020) and Naval Warfare (2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Contesting History : Narratives of Public History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Europe and the Parallel of the Past? In March 2013, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995, gave an interview with Der Spiegel, an influential German magazine, in which he used...

Michael Oakeshott ‘On Being Conservative’

Ephraim Podoksik

Ephraim Podoksik

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Conservative Moments : Reading Conservative Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...The self-government of men of passionate belief and enterprise is apt to break down when it is most needed. It often suffices to resolve minor collisions of interest, but beyond these it is not to be relied upon. A more precise and a less...

The Trend of the Times (Jiji taiseiron), 1882

Teruko Craig

Teruko Craig is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1988), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur (1994), Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro (1999) and In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, Hiratsuka Raicho (2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi : On Government

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Introduction “The Trend of the Times” provides no new historical model but is a vital link in the progression of Fukuzawa’s thought. It was published in April 1882. The essay first...

Revering the Emperor (Sonnōron), 1888

Teruko Craig

Teruko Craig is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1988), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur (1994), Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro (1999) and In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, Hiratsuka Raicho (2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi : On Government

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Introduction Among Japanese thinkers, Fukuzawa might be categorized as a rationalist. He came to nineteenth-century Western thought with an intellect formed by a Confucian education and not from any...

The FitzGerald-Thatcher relationship and the evolution of Anglo-Irish relations, 1983–4

Stephen Kelly

Stephen Kelly is Associate Professor in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is the author of ‘A Failed Political Entity’: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992 (2016), Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist (edited collection) (2014), and Fianna Fáil, Partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975–1990

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...‘… I’d like to do something about Ireland’: The resurrection of Anglo-Irish relations The Conservative Party’s landslide victory at the 1983 British general election (held on 9 June of that year) was a personal triumph...

Alexander Hamilton

Michael P. Federici

Michael P. Federici

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Conservative Moments : Reading Conservative Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...There are some who would be inclined to regard the servile pliancy of the Executive to a prevailing current, either in the community or in the legislature, as its best recommendation. But such men entertain very crude notions, as well...

The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Zhichao Tong

Zhichao Tong

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Democratic Moments : Reading Democratic Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...The universality of citizens names the legislature of each state, and the federal constitution, transforming each of these legislatures in their turn into an electoral body, draws the members of the Senate from them. Therefore the senators...

Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican

Nathan Cooper

Nathan Cooper

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Democratic Moments : Reading Democratic Texts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Human society can thus be formed without any alienation of natural right, and the contract can be preserved in its entirety with complete fidelity, only if every person transfers all the power they possess to society, and society alone...