Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
Jörg Neuheiser, "Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867 (Studies in British and Imperial History)"
ISBN: 178533140X | 2016 | EPUB/PDF | 318 pages | 3 MB/1 MB
Originally published in German in 2010 as Krone, Kirche und Verfassung – Konservatismus in den englischen Unterschichten 1815–1867 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen
Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century's first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men and women demonstrated in the early Victorian period.
This much-needed study of the era's -conservatism from below- explores the role of religion in everyday culture and the Tories' successful mobilization across class boundaries.
Long before they were able to vote, large swathes of the lower classes embraced Britain's monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.