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

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. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lucy (Professor of Social and Cultural Hist Bland, Lucy Carr Bland
• Con la collaborazione di: Lucy Bland (Editore), Bland Lucy (Editore), Richard Carr (Editore), Carr Richard (Editore), Bland Lucy Lucy (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781526109309
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0930-9
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; First World War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Social & cultural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I