Cosmopolitan Conservatisms

Matthijs Lok is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History (2019), Eurocentrism in European History and Memory(2019) and a themed IJCHM issue on the Global Counter-Enlightenment (2019). Friedemann Pestel is Lecturer in Modern European History at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In 2015 he published his book Kosmopoliten wider Willen: Die monarchiens als Revolutionsemigranten (Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Monarchiens as Émigrés of the French Revolution), Oldenbourg-De Gruyter).Juliette Reboul is a postdoctoral researcher Radboud University, The Netherlands. She has written and edited works on the French counterrevolutionary emigration in the late 18th century, including French Emigration to Great Britain (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).

“Les 17 contributions (plus l’introduction) de ce volume amorcent une relecture importante de l’histoire du conservatisme sous l’angle de sa genèse et de sa formation transnationale […] chaque chapitre met en évidence une facette particulière de ces conservatismes, ce qui explique l’utilisation du pluriel pour englober la diversité géographique (Grande-Bretagne, France, Espagne, Pays-Bas, Allemagne, Russie, Chine) et chronologique (du XVIIe au XXIe siècle).”---- Miriam Franchina, in: Francia-Recensio, March 2023, pp.19–21 “An important contribution to the understanding of conservatism […] as in itself a method of opening up existing structures of thought to imaginative critique.”---- David McGrogan, in: Global Intellectual History , October 2023

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: IntroductionMatthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel and Juliette ReboulPART 1: Conservative Enlightenments2 Popular Conservatisms and Ecological Consciousness: 18th-Century Traditions of Nature Writing (Noël-Antoine Pluche, Alexander Pope)Alicia C. Montoya3 Eclectic, Conservative, Cosmopolitan: The Linguistics and Anthropology of Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1753–1809)Carolina Armenteros4 Counter-revolution, Conservatism and Conspiracy in the Cosmopolitan Public Sphere from 1770s to 1790s: Mallet Du Pan, Barruel and the PhilosophesSimon Burrows5 Enlightenment against Revolution: The Genesis of Dutch ConservatismWyger R.E. Velema6 A Christian Cosmopolitanism: Pauline Universalism and Cynic Apostolicism during the Brabant Revolt (1787–1790)Michiel Van Dam7 18th-Century Crusaders: The War against France and the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1789–99Glauco SchettiniPART 2: Transnational Networks and Institutions8 Survival Strategies: Jacobite Adaptability, 1689–1789, and Counter-revolutionary PrototypesNigel Aston9 Transnational Networks, Salon Sociability, and Multilateral Exchanges in the Study of Conservatism during and after the Revolutionary EraBrian Vick10 The Ancien Régime and the Jeune Premier: The Birth of Russian Conservatism in Vienna (1803–12)Lien Verpoest11 How Conservative Was the Holy Alliance Really? Tsar Alexander’s Offer of Radical Redemption to the Western WorldBeatrice de Graaf12 France and Spain: A Common Territory of Anti-Revolution (End of the 18th Century–1880)Jean-Philippe Luis†13 Romancing the Monarchy: Romantic Queens and Soft PowerJoep LeerssenPART 3: Conservative Modernisms14 Conservative Women Writers: A Transnational History of Literary Bestsellers Opposing Liberalism and Early Feminism, c. 1850–1900Amerigo Caruso15 Muddling Through: The Rhetoric on Conservatism and Revolution in the London Times, 1789–2010Joris van Eijnatten16 Languages of Transnational Conservatism: The Emergence of “Left” and “Right” in BritainEmily Jones17 Western Conservative Ideas and Politics in China from the 1910s to the 1930sAymeric Xu18 Modernity and the Question of Conservatism: Reflections Based on the Chinese CaseAxel SchneiderIndex