Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867

Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
ISBN-10
1785331418
ISBN-13
9781785331411
Category
History
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2016-05-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Jörg Neuheiser

Description

Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century’s first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men and women demonstrated in the early Victorian period. This much-needed study of the era’s “conservatism from below” explores the role of religion in everyday culture and the Tories’ successful mobilization across class boundaries. Long before they were able to vote, large swathes of the lower classes embraced Britain’s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.

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