1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461356203321

Autore

Robin Corey <1967->

Titolo

The reactionary mind [[electronic resource] ] : conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin / / Corey Robin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-19-025255-3

1-283-23225-1

9786613232250

0-19-979393-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

320.52

Soggetti

Conservatism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Profiles in reaction -- Conservatism and counterrevolution -- The first counterrevolutionary -- Garbage and gravitas -- Out of place -- The ex-cons -- Not your daddy's (or even your granddaddy's) conservative -- Virtues of violence -- A color-coded genocide -- Remembrance of empires past -- Protocols of machismo -- Title tk 204 -- Easy to be hard.

Sommario/riassunto

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is ""boring,"" said the founding father of the American right. ""Devoting your life to it,"" as conservatives do, ""is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex."" With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally in



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396285103316

Autore

Watson Samuel <ca. 1618-1708.>

Titolo

An epistle by way of testimony to the friends of Manchester and thereabouts [[electronic resource] ] : given forth shortly after the death of my dear daughter, Mary Moss, wife of Isaac Moss of Manchester, who departed this life the XXIX of the 11th month, 1692 : with a testimony concerning my dear wife Mary Watson, who since departed this life the 2d of the 9th month, 1694 / / by Samuel Watson ; together with a few words written by Elizabeth Moss concerning her dear mother

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Tho. Northcott ..., 1695

Descrizione fisica

[2], 14 p

Altri autori (Persone)

MossElizabeth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018