The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of GladstoneTransaction Publishers, 1. jan. 1990 - 433 sider This pioneering work is the basic and largely unmatched study of the single transatlantic community of thought shared by nineteenth century British and Canadian Liberals and American Democrats. The result of more than tens years of comparative research, The Transatlantic Persuasion explores the roots of those ideas hat comprise a coherent Liberal-Democratic worldview: ideas about society, human relations, the economy, equality, liberty, the ethnocultural dimension of life, the proper role and nature of government, and the world community. In Britain, Canada, and the United States, Liberal-Democrats saw themselves as battlers against social evils caused by corrupt, self-seeking aristocracies. This was true whether their power was based on business wealth, land, or vested religious privilege; and in all three countries they developed practically identical public policy agendas. Widely praised for its graceful narrative style, its intriguing political and cultural analysis, and its sensitive feeling for the nuances of personality and the human condition, The Transatlantic Persuasion finds that cultural forces such as ethnicity, religion, and style of life have played an astonishingly central role in politics. Kelley sees a similar confrontation within each of the three countries between the core culture, including the Establishment and its institutions, and the outgroups, the culturally, socially, and often economically peripheral peoples. In Britain, for example, the Tories (Conservatives) were the aggressively dominant English, who look down on such minorities as the Scots and the Irish. These outgroups gathered within Gladstone's Liberal party, and from this base fought for equal status and treatment against prejudices. Similar patterns in Canada and the United States led to Kelley to conclude that these cultural facts of life were as important and powerful in public life as those that were purely economic in nature. Greeted with praise on its original publication in the general media as well as in major scholarly journals, The Transatlantic Persuasion performs history's highest office: It explains the present by placing it in the deep perspective of time, thus demonstrating how the past prefigures and shapes current events. |
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... Canadian Liberals . Transaction Publishers has asked me to prepare an introduction for this reissued edition to include a description of the response to the book after publication , which involves looking at reviews that greeted its ...
... Canadian history only begin the list — will be obvious in the text . In seeking for explanations of matters that run some- what beyond the usual beat for historians , I have often found penetrating instruction in the works of men in ...
... Canadian Liber- als and the American Democrats in the time of William Glad- stone and Woodrow Wilson might yield fresh insights into the nature of politics and political thought in the Anglo- American countries . I chose these parties ...
... , hoping to find in them reflections of what it was 5 Marvin Meyers , The Jacksonian Persuasion : Politics and Belief ( New York , 1960 ) , pp . v - ix . that moved the Americans and the British and the Canadians. xxxiv INTRODUCTION.
... Canadians to do what they did . Close examination of political rhetoric produces the real- ization that world views in politics are essentially a special kind of dramatic vision . They are not only associated with the arts of gesture ...
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