Ordeal of This Generation - The War, the League and the Future

List of contents

Preface. 1. Peace and Strife as Elements in Life: The Ideal of “Unhindered Activity” 2. The Civilization of the Nineteenth Century 3. The Felt Need 4. The World Inside the Covenant 5. The World Outside the Covenant 6. From Chaos to Cosmos 7. The Special Problems of the British Empire in Relation to the League of Nations.

About the author

Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) was a classical scholar, peace activist, and prominent humanist. As well as a distinguished classical scholar, he was an original and active member of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in 1942, which later became Oxfam. He was deeply affected by the First World War, and after it he became one of the leading figures in promoting world peace through the League of Nations.

Summary

First published in 1929, profound changes, political, social, economic and intellectual, had taken place fifty years prior, in the environment of civilized man, and it was still doubtful whether or not he would succeed in understanding them and adapting himself to meet them. That is the “ordeal” which forms the subject of these lectures.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Murray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032807195
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280719-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Sir Halley Stewart Trust: Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Social and cultural history