The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886 by Jonathan Parry

The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886



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The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886 Jonathan Parry
Language: English
Page: 434
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521839343, 9780521839341
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Review

"Parry may well know more about Victorian Liberalism than anyone else on the globe." -Philip Harling, H-Albion

"As Jonathan Parry notes in his excellent book, propertied Victorians 'considered their country to be the greatest power that the world had ever seen and expected that status to be maintained" (p. 387) - Philip Harling, H-Albion

"It is necessary to unpack many of Parry's comments, but this unpacking is certainly worthwhile." -Jeremy Black, H-Albion

"Jonathan Parry is the most interesting historian of Victorian liberalism of his generation. He approaches his subject with an unapologetic admiration that never falls into uncritical flattery...his comments on Nonconformity and the general liberal sensitivity to religious issues are especially perceptive and push the envelope of old, now obsolete, secular interpretations of the subject...Parry's volume deserves enormous respect and will no doubt generate genuinely creative controversy." Frank M. Turner, Yale University

"Parry has offered us a book that deserves to become one the major classics of nineteenth-century British History for a long time to come." Georgios Varouxakis, American Historical Review

Book Description

Between the 1830s and 1880s European problems had a profound impact on British politics. Parry examines the effect on the British Liberal movement of the most significant of these, such as the 1848 Revolutions, the unification of Italy and the Franco-Prussian War, arguing such issues made patriotism a political question.