Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The right-wing press from Jacobitism to the Reform crisis: a discussion of sources; 2. The spirit of the English Right in an age of revolution; 3. Tories and Jacobites in the mid and late eighteenth century; 4. Toryism redivivus; 5. The British monarchy and the Right, 1760–1832; 6. Parliamentary reform and the Right, 1750–1832; 7. Tory humanitarianism and political economy, 1760–1832; 8. The right and Protestantism; 9. The Right and Catholicism; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

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This 1993 book discusses an evolving right-wing mentalité, expressed in attitudes towards the past, the monarchy, humanitarianism, reform, and religion.