LEADER 02782nam 22004692 450 001 9910165058603321 005 20170712093637.0 010 $a1-78694-418-9 010 $a1-78694-802-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001064713 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001803698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5108822 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781786948021 035 $a(PPN)259024961 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001064713 100 $a20170307d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFor class and country $ethe patriotic Left and the First World War /$fDavid Swift$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in Labour History 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). 311 $a1-78694-002-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe First World War has often suffered from comparison to the Second, in terms of both public interest and the significance ascribed to it by scholars in the shaping of modern Britain. This is especially so for the relationship between the Left and these two wars. For the Left, the Second World War can be seen as a time of triumph: a united stand against fascism followed by a landslide election win and a radical, reforming Labour government. The First World War is more complex. Given the gratuitous cost in lives, the failure of a 'fit country for heroes to live in' to materialise, the deep recessions and unemployment of the inter-war years, and the botched peace settlements which served only to precipitate another war, the Left has tended to view the conflict as an unmitigated disaster and unpardonable waste. This has led to a tendency on the Left to see the later conflict as the 'good' war, fought against an obvious evil, and the earlier conflict as an imperialist blunder; the result of backroom scheming, secret pacts and a thirst for colonies. This book hopes to move away from a concentration on machinations at the elite levels of the labour movement, on events inside Parliament and intellectual developments; there is a focus on less well-visited material. 410 0$aStudies in labour history. 606 $aSocialism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWar and socialism 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 615 0$aWar and socialism. 676 $a335/.00941 700 $aSwift$b David$01207927 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910165058603321 996 $aFor class and country$92786806 997 $aUNINA