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Semi-Detached Idealists - The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945 (Hardcover, New)
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Semi-Detached Idealists - The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945 (Hardcover, New)
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Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it
the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions
to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international
relations (unlike most of Europe), yet too close to the continent
for isolationism to be an option (as it was in the United States),
the country has provided favourable conditions for those aspiring
not merely to prevent war but to abolish it. The period from the
Crimean War to the Second World War marked the British peace
movement's age of maturity. In 1854, it was obliged for the first
time to contest a decision - and moreover a highly popular one - to
enter war. It survived the resulting adversity, and gradually
rebuilt its position as an accepted voice in public life, though by
the end of the nineteenth century its leading associations such as
the Peace Society were losing vitality as they gained
respectability. Stimulated by the First World War into radicalizing
and reconstructing itself through the formation of such
associations as the Union of Democratic Control, the
No-Conscription Fellowship, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
the movement endured another period of unpopularity before enjoying
unprecedented influence during the inter-war years, the era of the
League of Nations Union, the Oxford Union's 'King and country'
debate, the Peace Ballot, and the Peace Pledge Union. Finally,
however, Hitler discredited much of the agenda it had been
promoting the previous century or more. This book is the first
comprehensive and authoritative study of this subject. It covers
all significant peace associations and campaigns and is based on an
extensive use of archival as well as printed sources. Its subject
matter is of relevance both to historians of nineteenth and
twentieth-century British politics and to specialists in
international relations interested in the anti-realist tradition.
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