5.8 Allitt (2009)
Allitt, Patrick N. (2009) The Conservative Tradition (Audio or Video with Course Guidebook). Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company.
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Author Dr. Patrick N. Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1988. The holder of a doctorate in history from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Allitt-an Oxford University graduate-has also taught American religious history at Harvard Divinity School, where he was a Henry Luce Postdoctoral Fellow. A widely published and award-winning author, Professor Allitt has written several books, including The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities throughout American History;Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985; Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome; and Religion in America since 1945: A History. In addition, he is the editor of Major Problems in American Religious History. He has written numerous articles and reviews for academic and popular journals, including The New York Times Book Review. (Click the book cover (right) to go to The Teaching Company's website page for this course. There you can see a detailed description of the course and its 24 30-minute lectures.) I've also reviewed Allitt's American Religious History (Audio or Video with Course Guidebook) (2001) (see 4.11) |
This Resource’s Key Interpretations and Insights Related to the Purposes of This Website
The British origins of this excellent historian puts him in a excellent position to compare American conservatism with its cousin in Britain in very illuminating ways--ways that challenge the assumption that there is only one true path.
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The British origins of this excellent historian puts him in a excellent position to compare American conservatism with its cousin in Britain in very illuminating ways--ways that challenge the assumption that there is only one true path.
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Endorsements
"Preserving the traditions and values of the past and applying them to the future—this is the core of the Conservative attitude. While the development of Conservatism has followed different arcs in the United States and Great Britain, this rich and fascinating political tradition has decisively impacted the evolution of both nations and their grand political institutions.
"Conservatism has become a critical part of Western world thinking since its origins in the late 17th-century's Glorious Revolution, when royal power was curbed and Parliament became the central feature of the British political system. Since then, it has gone on to play an influential role in shaping the course of British—and later American—history.
"In our own country, this philosophy has become one of the two dominant ideologies of our modern political tradition. A thorough understanding of Conservatism's lineage, principles, and impact on history is essential to making sense of the 21st-century political dialogue—a dialogue that consumes the television you watch, the newspapers you read, and the radio you listen to.
"No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, the 36 lectures of Professor Patrick Allitt'sThe Conservative Tradition will intrigue you, engage you, and maybe even provoke you to think about this political philosophy in an entirely new way." ~partial website course description
"Conservatism has become a critical part of Western world thinking since its origins in the late 17th-century's Glorious Revolution, when royal power was curbed and Parliament became the central feature of the British political system. Since then, it has gone on to play an influential role in shaping the course of British—and later American—history.
"In our own country, this philosophy has become one of the two dominant ideologies of our modern political tradition. A thorough understanding of Conservatism's lineage, principles, and impact on history is essential to making sense of the 21st-century political dialogue—a dialogue that consumes the television you watch, the newspapers you read, and the radio you listen to.
"No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, the 36 lectures of Professor Patrick Allitt'sThe Conservative Tradition will intrigue you, engage you, and maybe even provoke you to think about this political philosophy in an entirely new way." ~partial website course description
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