The Guardians of Concepts : : Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980 / / Martina Steber.

National and transnational debates in Britain and Germany surrounding the meaning of the word “conservative” continue to have far-reaching political consequences. After 1945, even while the term was an accepted part of the political vocabulary of Great Britain, in the Federal Republic of Germany the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies in British and Imperial History ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (556 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the German Edition of 2017
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Conservatism and Toryism: Concepts of Self-Description in the Political Languages of Conservatism in the United Kingdom
  • Chapter 2 The Arduous Quest for Conservatism in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Chapter 3 Initial Conclusions: Political Languages of Conservatism in Comparison – Conceptual Divergences and Structural Similarities
  • Chapter 4 Entering into European Conversation: CDU, CSU and the Conservative Party in Search for a Shared Political Language
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index