Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War)

Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War)
Author: Jay M. Winter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317700090

The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an account of the development of the political ideas and activities of some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement and of socialist ideas on the eve of the conflict, then turns to the central question of the impact of the War on the dissemination of British socialist ideas.

Socialism and the Challenge of War

Socialism and the Challenge of War
Author: J. M. Winter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1993-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780751201550

The problems presented by war in the 20th century have severely tested socialist ideas, and World War I in particular marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British Labour movement. This text is an account of the development of political ideas and activities of the most rigorous and original of thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R.H. Tawney and G.D.H Cole.

The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War)

The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War)
Author: A. J. A. Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 131770102X

This revealing book illustrates how the passion for war was fostered and promoted. The author provides detailed evidence of how and why an image of Germany as a nation determined upon world hegemony was deliberately promoted by a group of British newspaper editors, proprietors and journalists. This book examines the role of these ‘scaremongers’. Were they as influential as their critics claimed? Did they influence the minds of their readers and shape events? Were they guilty of creating a climate of opinion that ensured that their prophecies of inevitable Anglo-German war became fact in 1914?

Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

Labour, British radicalism and the First World War
Author: Lucy Bland
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526109328

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. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the Labour Party played in the conflict, and its evolving attitudes towards the war; the second strand concerns the notion of work, and particularly women’s work; the third strand deals with the impact of theory and practice of forces located largely outside the United Kingdom. Through these essays this book aims to provide a series of thirteen bite-size analyses of key issues affecting the British left throughout the war, and to further our understanding of it in this critical period of commemoration.