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The troubled twentieth century has been characterised perhaps above all else by the threat and actuality of war. As modern technology has raced ahead so the means of destruction have become ever more sophisticated and frightening. The peace movement in Britain has been one of the largest and most significant movements of protest and concern, stretching from the opposition to the First World War through to the mass movement of protest against nuclear weapons of the 1980s. This collection of new essays analyses from a variety of viewpoints some of the areas of crucial significance in the history and politics of the movement. The contributors range from activists engaged in the movement itself to academic scholars of national reputation. Topics covered include women and peace; the Labour Party and CND; the Marxist left and the peace movement; the Christian approach; and critics and critiques of the peace movement. Much of the material presented here is based on original sources and throws new light on historical and political issues of central significance to twentieth-century British society. It is written in jargon-free style so as to be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of higher education and researchers in the field.
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Campaigns for Peace: British Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century
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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719018927
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Campaigns for Peace: British Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century
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Manchester University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0719018927
ISBN 13: 9780719018923
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, x + 308 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A touch of scuffing and short creases to boards edges. Dust jacket with one short edge-tear, creases along the edges. -- The troubled twentieth century has been characterised perhaps above all else by the threat and actuality of war. As modern technology has raced ahead so the means of destruction have become ever more sophisticated and frightening. The peace movement in Britain has been one of the largest and most significant movements of protest and concern, stretching from the opposition to the First World War through to the mass movement of protest against nuclear weapons of the 1980s. This collection of new essays analyses from a variety of viewpoints some of the areas of crucial significance in the history and politics of the movement. The contributors range from activists engaged in the movement itself to academic scholars of national reputation. Topics covered include women and peace; the Labour Party and CND; the Marxist left and the peace movement; the Christian approach; and critics and critiques of the peace movement. Much of the material presented here is based on original sources and throws new light on historical and political issues of central significance to twentieth-century British society. It is written in jargon-free style so as to be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of higher education and researchers in the field. -- Contents: Introduction / Mary Kaldor; Tradition and Innovation in the British Peace Movement: Towards an Analytical Framework / Nigel Young; War Resistance and the British Peace Movement Since 1914 / Nigel Young; War, Peace and British Marxism, 1895-1945 / Martin Shaw; Peace Movement Between the Wars: Problems of Definition / Martin Ceadel; Labour Party and CND: 1957-1984 / Richard Taylor; Non-violent Direct Action in the 1950s and 1960s / Michael Randle; Marxist Left and the Peace Movement in Britain since 1945 / Richard Taylor; Churches and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1945-1985 / David Ormrod; Women and Peace: From the Suffragists to the Greenham Women / Josephine Eglin; Critics and Criticism of the British Peace Movement / Peter van den Dungen; Britain and the International Peace Movement in the 1980s / Richard Taylor & Nigel Young; Index. Seller Inventory # 006501