Conservatism: A State of the Field

In the early 1990s it was still possible to see the story of the twentieth century in terms of the triumph and expansion of liberalism, from the New Deal through the civil rights movement, feminism, the gay rights movement, and environmentalism. [...] what we need now is the distance to think anew a...

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Published inThe Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Vol. 98; no. 3; pp. 723 - 743
Main Author Phillips-Fein, Kim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Organization of American Historians 01.12.2011
Oxford University Press
Subjects
20th century
Activists
American history
Bookstores
Christianity
Civil rights
Conservatism
Conservatism: A Round Table
Feminism
Historians
History of ideas
Liberalism
Military history
New Deal
Political activism
Political history
Political movements
Political parties
Politics
Reagan, Ronald Wilson
Right wing politics
Scholars
Social activism
United States history
New York
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Summary:In the early 1990s it was still possible to see the story of the twentieth century in terms of the triumph and expansion of liberalism, from the New Deal through the civil rights movement, feminism, the gay rights movement, and environmentalism. [...] what we need now is the distance to think anew about the nature of conservative power in the twentieth century.
ISSN:0021-8723
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/jar430