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The British peace movement, 1870-1914 / Paul Laity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford historical monographsPublisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2001Description: ix, 270 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199248354
  • 9780199248353
Other title:
  • British peace movement, eighteen seventy-nineteen fourteen
  • British peace movement, 1870 to 1914
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.172094109034 21
LOC classification:
  • JZ5584.G3 L35 2001
Contents:
1. 1816-1870: The Peace Society, the First International, and the Reform League -- 2. 1870-1876: The Franco-Prussian War, the WPA, and Arbitration -- 3. 1876-1880: The Peace Movement and the Eastern Question -- 4. 1880-1889: The IAPA, Egypt, and the IAL -- 5. 1889-1899: The Universal Peace Congresses, the Arms Race, and the Concert of Europe -- 6. 1899-1907: The Hague Conferences and the South African War -- 7. 1907-1914: The Pre-War Peace Movement -- 8. The Reaction of the Peace Movement to European War.
Review: "This is the first detailed scholarly study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate, especially during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign (1876-8), Britain's conflict in Egypt (1882), the South African War (1899-1902), and the intensifying international crisis before 1914. The movement's activists included Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Keir Hardie, J. A. Hobson, and Norman Angell." "Among the first to benefit from the opening of the Peace Society Archive, the book focuses on the specialized associations at the heart of the peace movement. Paul Laity identifies the existence of different programmes for the achievement of a just, permanent peace, and offers a new interpretation of the reaction of peace campaigners to war in 1914. At the same time, his book makes an important and original contribution to the history of politics and political ideas in Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-251) and index.

1. 1816-1870: The Peace Society, the First International, and the Reform League -- 2. 1870-1876: The Franco-Prussian War, the WPA, and Arbitration -- 3. 1876-1880: The Peace Movement and the Eastern Question -- 4. 1880-1889: The IAPA, Egypt, and the IAL -- 5. 1889-1899: The Universal Peace Congresses, the Arms Race, and the Concert of Europe -- 6. 1899-1907: The Hague Conferences and the South African War -- 7. 1907-1914: The Pre-War Peace Movement -- 8. The Reaction of the Peace Movement to European War.

"This is the first detailed scholarly study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate, especially during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign (1876-8), Britain's conflict in Egypt (1882), the South African War (1899-1902), and the intensifying international crisis before 1914. The movement's activists included Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Keir Hardie, J. A. Hobson, and Norman Angell." "Among the first to benefit from the opening of the Peace Society Archive, the book focuses on the specialized associations at the heart of the peace movement. Paul Laity identifies the existence of different programmes for the achievement of a just, permanent peace, and offers a new interpretation of the reaction of peace campaigners to war in 1914. At the same time, his book makes an important and original contribution to the history of politics and political ideas in Britain."--BOOK JACKET.

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