Poisoning the minds of the lower orders
Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. This work aims to take the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Weaving social and intellectual history, it brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. It challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.
History
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PrefaceEnlightenment11A Conservative Inheritance132Of Coffeehouses and Schoolmasters503Poison and Antidote894The Politics of Reason140Contempt1915The Politics of the Emotions2026A Guide to the Menagerie: Women and Workers2447A Guide to the Menagerie: Blacks and Jews2838Self and Other3249Faces in the Mirror363Standing40310Wollstonecraft's Hair41411The Trouble with Hairdressers45512The Fate of a Trope505Index547