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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... fact , that in the Lee Benson style focused on the ethnocultural roots of American politics.7 In rich and fascinating detail , these works 6For a keen commentary on all of this , see John Higham's introductory essay to the book he and ...
... fact that they are part of a larger Anglo - American community whose history has gone largely unwritten . I have wanted to explore an assump- tion that the three countries have not simply a " common heritage " and a " special ...
... fact they believed — to take them on their own terms , not on ours . This led me to decide on the term " Lib- eral - Democratic " for its specifically historical , rather than philosophical , reference . Whether or not I am talking ...
... fact that Liberal - Democratic politics had a special relationship to the minority groups . In a real sense , Liberal - Democratic politics and thought seemed to be the products of the habits of mind typical among out- groups ...
... fact what gave substance to the ideals originally ut- tered in the Declaration of Independence . The boom began in the swift growth in cotton produc- tion in the United States that followed the invention of the cotton gin in 1792. An ...
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