LEADER 04136nam 22006012 450 001 9911008480103321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-98759-3 010 $a9786612987595 010 $a1-84615-739-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781846157394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066551 035 $a(EBL)661894 035 $a(OCoLC)701053915 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470751 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470751 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413475 035 $a(PQKB)10763944 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846157394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC661894 035 $a(DE-B1597)676062 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781846157394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066551 100 $a20120511d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Labour Party and the politics of war and peace, 1900-1924 /$fPaul Bridgen 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aRoyal Historical Society studies in history. New series 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a0-86193-303-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRe-thinking the Labour party's approach to foreign policy, 1900-1924 -- Labour and international affairs before the First World War -- Labour and the outbreak of war, August-October 1914 -- Thinking about international affairs, 1914-1918 -- The politics of the 1917 memorandum on war aims -- Labour and the peace, 1918-1921 -- The co-ordination of Labour's approach to foreign affairs, 1921 -- Labour and European reconstruction, 1921-1924 -- Labour and European security, 1921-1924. 330 $aA fresh investigation of the Labour party's foreign policy in her formative years, radically revising previous interpretations. This rich analytical account of the Labour party's foreign policy between the party's formation and the fall of the first Labour government in 1924 demonstrates that the party's policy development during this period was far more sophisticated than has previously been considered. The party was neither merely the ideological cipher for ex-Liberals in the Union of Democratic Control; nor did it enter government devoid of policy ideas. Rather, as the author shows, the party sought consistently to construct and eventually to implement a genuinely radical foreign policy. This involved significant input from the wider labour movement, and was also influenced at important moments by contacts with the international socialist movement. Rejecting doctrinally rigid approaches to Labour policy development, the author demonstrates that many ideological currents flowed through the early Labour party, and, crucially, that one of the strongest traditions influencing the formation of the party's post-war foreign policy objectives was Gladstonian internationalism, rather than the anti-war Cobdenite radicalism of the UDC and its allies. Before the war, Labour is shown to have been actively engaged in attempts by progressives to establish ideological links between socialism, radicalism and liberalism in ways appealing to the new mass electorate. Thereafter, it built on these traditions to help consolidate its claim to be the legitimate heir to nineteenth-radical traditions in foreign policy. 410 0$aRoyal Historical Society studies in history.$pNew series. 517 3 $aThe Labour Party & the Politics of War & Peace, 1900?1924 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1901-1936 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1901-1936 676 $a327.41009041 686 $aNP 5700$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aBridgen$b Paul$01825917 712 02$aRoyal Historical Society (Great Britain), 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008480103321 996 $aThe Labour Party and the politics of war and peace, 1900-1924$94393847 997 $aUNINA