The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951The Second World War was a watershed moment in foreign policy for the Labour Party in Britain. This book traces how the British democratic left set about the task of defining the principles of a radically new international system for the post-war world. The author shows how the experience of total war fundamentally reshaped the left's attitudes toward national identity and international policy. Breaking with the traditional accounts that place Cold War tensions at the centre of the Attlee government's activities in the immediate postwar years, R. M. Douglas's book provides an entirely new framework for reassessing British foreign policy and left-wing concepts of national identity during the most turbulent mement of Britain's modern history. |
Contents
Half a League Onward The Labour Critique of the NationState 190039 | |
Dictatorship of the Secretariat Transport House and the Rise of Muscular | |
Internationalism or AntiNationalism? Backbench and Backroom Visions of World | |
Trustees for Humanity Ministerial Planning for International Government 1940 | |
Utopia Deferred The Attlee Administration and the United Nations 194551 | |
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The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951 R. M. Douglas No preview available - 2015 |
The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951 R. M. Douglas No preview available - 2004 |
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