Labour, British Radicalism and the First World War

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.

Sommario

Introduction - Lucy Bland and Richard Carr
1 Peace, but not at any price: British socialists' calls for peace on the eve of World War One - Marcus Morris
2 At the crossroads: the Labour Party, the trade unions and the choices of direction for the democratic Left - Chris Wrigley
3 'One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House': the passage of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 - Mari Takayanagi
4 Labour and socialism during the Great War in Bristol and Northampton - Matthew Kidd
5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War - Jack Southern
6 Living through war, waging peace: comparing Mary Macarthur and Sylvia Pankhurst - Deborah Thom
7 'Industrial unionism for women': Ellen Wilkinson and the unionisation of shop workers, 1915-18 - Matt Perry
8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism: gender, militarism and collective action in the British Women's Corps - Krisztina Robert
9 Charlie Chaplin's war: a British radical in tumultuous times - Richard Carr
10 Irish Labour and the 'Cooperative Commonwealth' in the era of the Great War - Marc Mulholland
11 Russia's war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson - Jonathan Davis
12 The Stanford connection: David Starr Jordan, eugenics and the Anglo-American anti-war movement - Gavin Baird and Bradley W. Hart
13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles - John Callaghan
Index

Info autore

Lucy Bland is Reader in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Riassunto

Provides a concise set of twelve essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. This book intends to provide a series of twelve bite-size analyses of key issues affecting the British left throughout the war, and more.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lucy Bland, Lucy Carr Bland, Richard Bland Carr
• Con la collaborazione di: Lucy Bland (Editore), Bland Lucy (Editore), Richard Carr (Editore), Carr Richard (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781526109293
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0929-3
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Political Parties, European History, First World War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1910 to c 1919, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Political parties and party platforms, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I