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This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the
second edition of 1966) presents a history of international
socialism, not just from the political but also the economic
standpoint.
This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the
second edition of 1966) presents a history of international
socialism, not just from the political but also the economic
standpoint.
This is the third and final volume of the letters of Sidney and
Beatrice Webb. As leading figures in the Fabian Society, prominent
historians and public figures, they numbered among their
correspondents some of the most outstanding personalities of their
day, including E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, William
Beveridge and Leonard Woolf. The letters in this volume run from
1912, when the Webbs signalled a fresh start in British politics by
founding the New Statesman, to the death of Beatrice in 1943 and
Sidney in 1947.
Sidney and Beatrice Webb were among the outstanding political
personalities in the period 1890 1945. They were leading figures in
the Fabian Society, prominent historians, and founders of the
London School of Economics and the New Statesman. They exchanged
letters with many of the leading figures in the political,
intellectual and literary worlds of the time, among them Herbert
Asquith, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand
Russell. Volume II of the letters covers the years between the Webb
marriage and their return from Asia in 1912. They were the prime
years of the partnership, in which the Webbs came to dominate the
Fabian Society, founded the London School of Economics and launched
their campaign for the reform of the Poor Law.
The Webbs were a unique partnership. Their idea of 'the
inevitability of gradualness' dominated the Fabian Society and
Labour thinking for half a century, though their theory of
political permeation also led them into close association with
Liberal and Conservative politicians. They were scholars as well as
propagandists, writing massive histories of trade unionism and
local government, and the famous Minority Report of the Royal
Commission on the Poor Law which paved the way for the welfare
state. They were the founders of the London School of Economics and
of the New Statesman. This crowded public life is reflected in the
hundreds of letters they exchanged in their long lifetimes, as well
as in their correspondence with many of the outstanding
personalities of their day, including Herbert Asquith, Joseph
Chamberlain, William Beveridge, E. M. Forster, R. B. Haldane, J. M.
Keynes, Ramsay MacDonald, Alfred Marshall, Sydney Olivier, G. B.
Shaw, Charlotte Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Samuel, Herbert
Spencer, Graham Wallas, H. G. Wells and Leonard Woolf. Their
letters also reveal the hidden but intense emotional character of
their relationship.
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