Conservatives Against Capitalism : From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization / Peter Kolozi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolozi, Peter, author.

Series:

Columbia scholarship online.

Columbia scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Political aspects--United States--History.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History.

Conservatism--United States--History.

Conservatism.

United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.

United States.

United States--Economic policy--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Few beliefs seem more fundamental to American conservatism than faith in the free market. Yet throughout American history, many of the major conservative intellectual and political figures have harbored deep misgivings about the unfettered market and its disruption of traditional values, hierarchies, and communities. In Conservatives Against Capitalism, Peter Kolozi traces the history of conservative skepticism about the influence of capitalism on politics, culture, and society.Kolozi discusses conservative critiques of capitalism-from its threat to the Southern way of life to its emasculating effects on American society to the dangers of free trade-analyzing the positions of a wide-ranging set of individuals, including John Calhoun, Theodore Roosevelt, Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Patrick J. Buchanan. He examines the ways in which conservative thought went from outright opposition to capitalism to more muted critiques, ultimately reconciling itself to the workings and ethos of the market. By analyzing the unaddressed historical and present-day tensions between capitalism and conservative values, Kolozi shows that figures regarded as iconoclasts belong to a coherent tradition, and he creates a vital new understanding of the American conservative pantheon.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Emerging Capitalism and Its Conservative Critics

2. In Search of the Warrior-Statesman

3. The Agrarian Critique of Capitalism

4. The New Conservatives

5. The Neoconservative Critiques of and Reconciliation with Capitalism

6. The Paleoconservative Critique of Global Capitalism

CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780231544610

0231544618

OCLC:

984686745