Progressive Democracy
Author: Herbert David Croly
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
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The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914
Author: F. McDonough
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-05-11
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0230210910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering first major study of the views of the Conservative Party towards the key aspects of Anglo-German relations from 1905 to 1914, it examines the Conservative response to the German threat, and argues that it showed a marked absence of open hostility towards Germany.
The Age of Urban Democracy
Author: Donald Read
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1317895908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious survey covers all aspects of the period in which English society acquired its modern shape -- industrial rather than agricultural, urban rather than rural, democratic in its institutions, and middle class rather than aristocratic in the control of political power. For this revised edition the footnotes and bibliography have been fully updated, and the entire text has been reset in a larger and more attractive format. An ideal introduction to the subject, it masters a huge amount of material through its clear structure, sensible judgements and approachable style.
The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War)
Author: A. J. A. Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1317701011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revealing book illustrates how the passion for war was fostered and promoted. The author provides detailed evidence of how and why an image of Germany as a nation determined upon world hegemony was deliberately promoted by a group of British newspaper editors, proprietors and journalists. This book examines the role of these ‘scaremongers’. Were they as influential as their critics claimed? Did they influence the minds of their readers and shape events? Were they guilty of creating a climate of opinion that ensured that their prophecies of inevitable Anglo-German war became fact in 1914?
English Radicalism, 1886-1914
Author: S. Maccoby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780415265751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is volume 5 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century.
The Thirty-nine Steps
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780192839312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original and best adventure story ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes and explosions.With an Introduction by Stella Rimington. May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure -- a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?
In Defence of Naval Supremacy
Author: Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1612514812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable readers to observe the complex interplay of fiscal, technical, strategic, and personal factors that shaped the course of British naval decision-making during the critical quarter century that preceded the outbreak of the First World War.
Pitmen Preachers and Politics
Author: Robert Samuel Moore
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1974-07-11
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521203562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of four Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages during an especially important phase of trade union and political history. Professor Moore's research is both vivid and scholarly. He lived in the community, he can report first-hand on the villagers he talked with, and at the same time he produces an ambitious contribution to the social sciences.
The Origins of the First World War
Author: James Joll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1317875362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Joll's scholarship, and the clarity of his exposition, have all contributed to the spectacular success of the book since its first appearance in 1984. Revised by Gordon Martel, this new 3rd edition accommodates recent research and an expanded further reading section.
From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage, Second Edition
Author: Jo Vellacott
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 077359969X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major suffragist politicians, leading some, in all three parties, to consider adopting a measure of women's enfranchisement as a party plank. By 1913 Marshall was uniquely placed as a lobbyist, with inside information and sympathetic listeners in every party. Through her the dynamically re-organized NUWSS brought the women's suffrage issue to the fore of public awareness. It pushed the Labour Party to adopt a strong stand on women's suffrage and raised working-class consciousness, re-awakening a long-dormant demand for full adult enfranchisement. Had the general election due in 1915 taken place, NUWSS financial and organizational support for the Labour Party might well have been substantial enough to influence the final results. These impressive achievements were forgotten by the time Catherine Marshall died in 1961. Even recent research on the period has failed to show the full significance of the issue of women's suffrage, much less Marshall's part in the movement. Jo Vellacott's revealing account of Marshall's political work also includes vivid descriptions of a liberal Victorian childhood, a strangely purposeless young adulthood, and the heady experiences of women who, through the awakening of political consciousness, forged a lifestyle to fit their new aspirations.
