%0 Journal Article %T Dogancan zsel (ed.) Reflections on Conservatism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) %A Garrett Barden %J Nordicum-Mediterraneum %D 2012 %I %X In the foreword to his The Ancien R¨¦gime and the Revolution (1856) Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that ¡°No nation had ever before embarked on so resolute an attempt as that of the French in 1789 to break with the past, to make, as it were, a scission in their life line and to create an unbridgeable gulf between all they had hitherto been and all they now aspired to be. ...in a word, they spared no pains in their endeavour to obliterate their former selves.¡± %K Antell %K Ataturk %K Burke %K Cameron %K Conservatism %K Denmark %K Fergusson %K France %K Hegel %K Hungary %K Jonas %K Justinian %K libertarianism %K McMurtry %K Sarkozy %K Thatcher %K Turkey %K UK %K Ulpian %K United States %U http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-7-n-1-2012/37-book-review/117-dogancan-oezsel-ed-reflections-on-conservatism-newcastle-cambridge-scholars-publishing-2011