Bland / Unknown / Carr Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0931-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Bland, Lucy

Carr, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bland Lucy:
Lucy Bland is Reader in History at Anglia Ruskin University, CambridgeLucy Bland is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Anglia Ruskin University

Richard Carr is Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at Anglia Ruskin University