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Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781847794284
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Content:
Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the respectable faceof troublemaking; 1. The League of Nations, public opinion and the New Diplomacy; 2. Of all parties and of none: the League in party politics; 3. Members one of another: Christianity, religion and the League; 4. Training for world citizenship: internationalist education betweenthe wars; 5. Enlightened patriots: League, empire, nation; 6. Classes and cultures? Leagueactivism and class politics; 7. Mothering the world: the making of a gendered internationalism
Content:
8. The quiet citizen silenced: the failure of political centrism, 1936-39Conclusion: democratising foreign policy between the wars; Bibliography; Index
Content:
In the decades following Europe's first total war, millions of British men and women looked to the League of Nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operation. Founded in 1919 to preserve peace between its member-states, the League inspired a rich, participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual which found expression through the establishment of voluntary societies in dozens of countries across Europe and beyond. Embodied in the hugely popular League of Nations Union, this pro-League movement touched Britain in profound
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719086168
Additional Edition:
Print version The British people and the League of Nations : Democracy, citizenship and internationalism, c.1918?45
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. McCarthy, Helen The British people and the League of Nations Manchester [u. a.] : Manchester Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 0719086167
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719086168
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Völkerbund
;
Geschichte 1918-1945
;
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