R M Douglas

The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the British Labour movement's schemes for a radically new international system after the Second World War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415865302
• ISBN-10: 0415865301
• Artikelnr.: 37330305

Autorenporträt

R.M. Douglas is Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University, New York. He was awarded a PhD in History by Brown University in 1996. He is the author of Feminist Freikorps: The British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940 (1999) and Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. 'Half a League Onward': The Labour Critique of the
Nation-State, 1900-392. Dictatorship of the Secretariat: Transport House
and the Rise of 'Muscular' Internationalism3. Internationalism or
Anti-Nationalism?: Backbench and Beckroom Visions of World Order, 1939-454.
Trustees for Humanity: Ministerial Planning for International Government,
1940-455. Utopia Deferred: The Attlee Adminitration and the United Nations,
1945-516. An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: Labour Internationalism and
Colonial Trusteeship7. Socialism in One Country: The Failure of Labour
Europeanism Conclusion