The British Peace Movement 1870 1914

Author : Paul Laity
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554490

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The British Peace Movement 1870-1914 by Paul Laity Pdf

This is the first detailed scholarly study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate, especially during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign (1876-8), Britain's conflict in Egypt (1882), the South African War (1899-1902), and the intensifying international crisis before 1914. The movement's activists included Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Keir Hardie, J. A. Hobson, and Norman Angell. Among the first to benefit from the opening of the Peace Society Archive, the book focuses on the specialized associations at the heart of the peace movement. Paul Laity identifies the existence of different programmes for the achievement of a just, permanent peace, and offers a new interpretation of the reaction of peace campaigners to war in 1914. At the same time, his book makes an important and original contribution to the history of popular politics and political ideas in Britain.

Author : Martin Ceadel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001568214

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Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 by Martin Ceadel Pdf

This book has two aims: to tell for the first time the story of the most significant pacifist movement of modern times - that of Britain in the era of the two World Wars - and, in doing so, to develop a means of analysis that can be applied to pacifist movements in other countries and at other times. Its theme is that, whereas the First World War encouraged British pacifists to believe that their rejection of all war was justified in political terms, the approach of the Second forced them increasingly to realise that it was an absolutist faith which did not stand or fall by its practical consequences.

Author : Richard K. S. Taylor,Nigel Young
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0719018935

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Campaigns for Peace by Richard K. S. Taylor,Nigel Young Pdf

Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001568313

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The Abolition of War by Keith Robbins Pdf

Fredsbevægelse; Fredskampagne; 1. Verdenskrig 1914-1918.

Author : Sakiko Kaiga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489171

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Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919 by Sakiko Kaiga Pdf

An innovative study of the pre-history of the League of Nations, tracing the pro-League movement's unexpected development.

Author : M. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137274137

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Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914 by M. Johnson Pdf

Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree.

Author : David S. Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135898601

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The Search for Negotiated Peace by David S. Patterson Pdf

The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations, resulting in 30 million casualties, including more than 8 million killed. Set against the backdrop of this massive carnage, The Search for Negotiated Peace is the gripping story of the events that moved high profile American and European citizens, particularly women, into the international peace movement. This small, transatlantic network put forth proposals for changing the international system of negotiation. They supported non-annexationist war aims and attempted to discredit nations’ secret diplomacy, militarism and narrowly nationalistic practices. Instead, they wanted to develop a ‘new diplomacy.’ David Patterson skillfully develops the interactions of many of the notable leaders of the movement, including Jane Addams, Aletta Jacobs, and Rosika Schwimmer, into an absorbing narrative that brings together the various strands of women's history, international diplomatic history, and peace history for the first time. The Search for Negotiated Peace is an essential read for anyone interested in the social history of World War I and the foundations of citizen activism today.

Author : G. R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199284405

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A New England? by G. R. Searle Pdf

G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.

Author : M. Hammond,S. Towheed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230210837

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Publishing in the First World War by M. Hammond,S. Towheed Pdf

This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during this time.

Author : David Thackeray,Andrew Thompson,Richard Toye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319712970

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Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975 by David Thackeray,Andrew Thompson,Richard Toye Pdf

Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain’s economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a substantial degree on how competing visions of the UK should engage with foreign markets, which in turn were shaped by competing understandings of Britain’s economic past. The book considers the following inter-related questions: - What roles does economic imagination play in shaping people’s behaviour and how far can insights from behavioural economics be applied to historical issues of market selection? - How useful is the concept of the ‘official mind’ for explaining the development of market relationships? - What has been the relationship between expanding communications and the development of markets? - How and why have certain regions or groupings (e.g. the Commonwealth) been ‘unimagined’- losing their status as promising markets for the future?

Author : Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107435063

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Liberty Abroad by Georgios Varouxakis Pdf

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) is widely regarded as the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition; and yet because his views on international relations cannot be traced in any particular book or essay, his political thought remains largely misunderstood. Liberty Abroad is the first comprehensive, critical study which brings together all of John Stuart Mill's extensive contributions with particular attention to the historical contexts in which they were produced, as well as the political and philosophical preoccupations that prompted them, and how they were received among his contemporaries. A leading Mill scholar, Dr Georgios Varouxakis combines an extraordinary command of Mill's varied and extensive writings with a meticulous mastery of a range of Victorian controversies and thinkers to give a full, subtle evaluation of a major aspect of Mill's thought. This definitive study offers a major contribution to an area of increasing scholarly interest: the history of international political thought.

Author : Melanie Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317008774

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Towards World Heritage by Melanie Hall Pdf

Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is however surprisingly little understanding about how it took place, and research into it is narrowly focused. For example, generally landscape preservation from this time is examined separately from buildings; preservation is seen in terms of national narratives, or considered within the contexts of area studies, and it is usually seen from a specific disciplinary perspective. All of these later categorizations did not apply at the time and consequently, a very partial view is achieved. In order to begin unlocking a very complex phenomenon that has helped to define our own age, this dynamic collection of essays brings together an international and transdisciplinary line-up of academics and practitioners to reconsider preservation's origins in the second half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century. With a focus on Britain and the British Empire, and including case studies from the United States, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, 'The Holy Land', and Turkey, this book places preservation in imperial, international, and national contexts, demonstrating that there was far more interaction between different countries in this arena than may be supposed and revealing remarkable but hitherto hidden overlaps and intersections. It examines three main themes: the influence of religion; the political and sub-diplomatic aspects of preservation; and the professionalization of preservation practice. Internationalizing trends already existed through the churches, the universities, and the diplomatic services, as well as familial ties that had an important impact on preservation's epistemic communities and its targets. Other internationalizing factors include an interest in national histories and the histories of architecture and art, particularly when known through illustration; a growing interest in biography especially of 'founding fathers' or famous literary figures; and tourism. Although the focus is on architectural preservation, this book demonstrates that, in this formative period, the preservation of buildings and landscapes needs to be considered together - as it often was at the time - and in context. The conclusion reached is that the preservation movement has to be understood in imperial and international contexts, rather than in simply national or regional ones.

Author : Marc-William Palen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691205137

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Pax Economica by Marc-William Palen Pdf

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea, Palen explores how, beginning in the 1840s, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twentieth century, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians envisioned free trade as essential for a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course, this vision was at odds with the era’s strong predilections for nationalism, protectionism, geopolitical conflict, and colonial expansion. Palen reveals how, for some of its most radical left-wing adherents, free trade represented a hard-nosed critique of imperialism, militarism, and war. Palen shows that the anti-imperial component of free trade was a phenomenon that came to encompass the political left wing within the British, American, Spanish, German, Dutch, Belgian, Italian, Russian, French, and Japanese empires. The left-wing vision of a “pax economica” evolved to include supranational regulation to maintain a peaceful free-trading system—which paved the way for a more liberal economic order after World War II and such institutions as the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization. Palen’s findings upend how we think about globalisation, free trade, anti-imperialism, and peace. Rediscovering the left-wing history of globalism offers timely lessons for our own era of economic nationalism and geopolitical conflict.

Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198263715

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England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales by Keith Robbins Pdf

This is a lovely and accessible examination of all branches of the Christian Church in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the twentieth century in their central interaction with politics, social issues, war, and culture. It considers their pursuit of an elusive unity throughout a century when prevailing cultural attitudes underwent massive change.

Author : Erica Moretti
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299333102

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The Best Weapon for Peace by Erica Moretti Pdf

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori is best known for the teaching method that bears her name, but historian Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's work, showing that pacifism was the foundation of her pioneering efforts in psychiatry and pedagogy.