Neil Stammers

Civil Liberties in Britain During the 2nd World War (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Study

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1983, is a detailed study of government policy towards civil liberties in Britain during the Second World War, the nature of crisis government and its implications for democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000458312
• Artikelnr.: 62641343

Autorenporträt

Neil Stammers

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Nature of Emergency Powers and the Limitations of Parliamentary
Control 1.1. The Development of Emergency Legislation 1.2. The Emergency
Powers (Defence) Act 1939 and the First Defence Regulations 1.3. Opposition
to the Defence Regulations and their Amendment 1939 1.4. The Military
Crisis and New Powers 1.5. The Resistance to Change 1.6. Commentary 2. The
Internment of Enemy Aliens 2.1. Pre-War Planning and the Aliens' Tribunals
2.2. The Policy of General Internment 2.3. Conditions Chaos and
Deportations 2.4. The Growth of Opposition and the Government Response 2.5.
Commentary 3. The Debates Over Regulation 18B 3.1. Regulation 18B and its
Use 3.2. The Development of United Opposition 3.3. The Disintegration of
United Opposition 3.4. Commentary 4. The Control of Political Action 4.1.
The Chamberlain Government and Anti-War Propaganda 4.2. The Coalition
Government and the Invasion Crisis 4.3. The Communist Party in the Blitz
4.4. Unwelcome Allies 4.5. Towards D-Day and Peace 4.6. Commentary 5.
Censorship and the Media 5.1. Postal and Telegraphic Censorship 5.2. The
National Press 5.3. The BBC 5.4. Commentary 6. Mobilisation for the Total
War Economy 6.1. Early Concepts of Manpower Policy and the Need for
Consensus 6.2. The Machinery of Compulsion 6.3. The Application of Controls
in General 6.4. Degrees of Coercion - Pressure, Directions and Prosecutions
6.5. Commentary 7. Civil Liberties in Industry 7.1. Industrial Appeasement
to the Establishment of Tripartism 7.2. The industrial Imperative 7.3. The
Rise of Industrial Unrest 7.4. Commentary 8. Historical Postscript - the
End of the War 9. Conclusions 9.1. Government Practice and Civil Liberties
9.2. Democracy and Crisis Government