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Free Download Kieron O’Hara, David Willetts, "Conservatism"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1861898126 | EPUB | pages: 375 | 0.6 mb
The term "conservative," when employed today in reference to politicians and beliefs, can denote groups as diverse and incompatible as the religious right, libertarians, and opponents of large, centralized government. Yet the original conservative philosophy, first developed in the eighteenth century by Edmund Burke, was most concerned with managing change. This kind of genuine conservatism has a renewed relevance in a complex world where change is rapid, pervasive, and dislocating.

Free Download Europe against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past by Matthijs Lok
English | June 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0198872135 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1.84 Mb
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century. In the decades around 1800, the era of the French Revolution, counter-revolutionary authors from all over Europe defended European civilisation against the onslaught of nationalist revolutionaries, bent on the destruction of the existing order, or so they believed. In opposition to the new revolutionary world of universal and abstract principles, the counter-revolutionary publicists proclaimed the concept of a gradually developing European society and political order, founded on a set of historical and – ultimately divine – institutions that had guaranteed Europe’s unique freedom, moderation, diversity, and progress since the fall of the Roman Empire. These counter-revolutionary Europeanists drew on the cosmopolitan Enlightenment and simultaneously criticized its alleged revolutionary legacy. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these ideas of European history and civilisation were rediscovered and adapted to new political contexts, shaping in manifold ways our contested idea of European history and memory until today.

Free Download A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton, Kris Dyer, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
English | November 11, 2021 | ISBN: B09K82GLH7 | 9 hours and 14 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 345 Mb
Bloomsbury presents A Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton, read by Kris Dyer.
In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment and other ways of life? What does modern marriage look like? What is Enlightenment, and how has its inheritance made itself known? How should we approach religion, evil and death? What explains the rise of totalitarianism, and how should we respond to nihilism?
In these philosophical reflections, Scruton adopts his characteristically articulate and unorthodox tone, making no concessions to intellectual fashion. The result is a book of bold, clear thinking that will seem refreshingly logical to many, particularly those seeking a return to first principles in an increasingly baffling age of modernity.

Free Download Rita Abrahamsen, "World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order"
English | ISBN: 1009516086 | 2024 | 220 pages | PDF | 830 KB
The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the ‘New Class’ of global managerial elites who are accused of undermining national sovereignty, traditional values, and cultures. ‘World of the Right’ argues that while the radical Right is far from a unified political movement, its calls for sovereignty, civilisational orders, and multipolarity enable complex, strategic convergences with illiberal states such as China and Russia, as well as states and people in the Global South. The potential consequences for the future of the liberal world order are profound and wide-ranging.

Free Download Accounting Conservatism and the Stock Market: Insights from Three Decades of Research and New Evidence from the Italian Setting by Carlo D’Augusta
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 89 Pages | ISBN : 3031671449 | 3.5 MB
This book comprehensively examines accounting conservatism and its relationship with the stock market. Through a historical overview and a review of recent literature, it explores the evolution of conservatism research and the conceptual developments, measurement advancements, and empirical findings produced by academic scholars over the last decades. Additionally, it critically evaluates the applicability of conservatism models developed in the U.S. market to the Italian setting, offering a thorough analysis of their validity. Furthermore, the book presents novel empirical findings on conservatism’s impact on the Italian stock market during the Covid-19 pandemic. This nuanced exploration offers valuable insights for academics, practitioners, and researchers seeking to understand the complexities of financial reporting practices in diverse market environments.

Free Download Corey Robin, "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin"
English | ISBN: 0199793743 | 2011 | 290 pages | AZW3 | 455 KB
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?

Free Download Corey Robin, "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0190692006 | 2017 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 575 KB
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?

Free Download Leon Crane Bear, "Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1771992573 | PDF | pages: 368 | 5.8 mb
With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 60s and 70s. Drawing on archival material, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists arguing for a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change.

Free Download Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony
English | May 17, 2022 | ISBN: 1684511097 | 256 pages | PDF | 6.02 Mb
The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism-widely held since the 1960s-is seriously mistaken.

Free Download Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1641772905 | 281 pages | PDF | 5.09 Mb
The Conservative Establishment’s consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left’s rolling revolutions in nearly every sector of American society-from classrooms to boardrooms, from the military to the culture at large. The Left has successfully transformed the nation over the past few generations, racking up victory after victory, with no clear end in sight. This is not sustainable for the country or the constituency represented by the Republican Party. For the Right to have a serious future, it needs to rethink its positions and think more deeply about the essential policy questions which will define the future of the country: race, men and women, sexuality, religion, the economy, foreign policy, and other major issues. This collection of essays, written by some of the Right’s most interesting thinkers and practitioners, seeks to reframe the ideological and policy direction of the American Right.