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For class and country the patriotic left and the First World War 1st Edition by David Swift ISBN 1786948028 9781786948021

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Author(s): Swift, David
ISBN(s): 9781786948021, 1786948028
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.57 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1786948028 
ISBN 13: 9781786948021
Author: David Swift

The First World War has often suffered from comparison to the Second, in terms of both public interest and the significance ascribed to it by scholars in the shaping of modern Britain. This is especially so for the relationship between the Left and these two wars. For the Left, the Second World War can be seen as a time of triumph: a united stand against fascism followed by a landslide election win and a radical, reforming Labour government. The First World War is more complex. Given the gratuitous cost in lives, the failure of a ‘fit country for heroes to live in’ to materialise, the deep recessions and unemployment of the inter-war years, and the botched peace settlements which served only to precipitate another war, the Left has tended to view the conflict as an unmitigated disaster and unpardonable waste.

This has led to a tendency on the Left to see the later conflict as the ‘good’ war, fought against an obvious evil, and the earlier conflict as an imperialist blunder; the result of backroom scheming, secret pacts and a thirst for colonies. This book hopes to move away from a concentration on machinations at the elite levels of the labour movement, on events inside Parliament and intellectual developments; there is a focus on less well-visited material.

For class and country the patriotic left and the First World War 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: ‘If this is to be a jingo, then I am a jingo’ – Labour Patriotism before 1914

Chapter 2: ‘I’d sooner blackleg my union than blackleg my country’ – Labour Patriotism, 1914–18

Chapter 3: ‘Middle-class peace men?’ – Labour and the Anti-War Agitation

Chapter 4: ‘Our Platform is Broad Enough and our Movement Big Enough’ – The War and Recruits to Labour

Chapter 5: ‘The experiments are not found wanting’ – Labour and the Wartime State

Chapter 6: ‘The greatest democratic force British politics have known’ – Labour Cohesion and the War

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