ISBN10: 0719018927, ISBN13: 9780719018923, [publisher: Manchester University Press] Hardcover Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

Palgrave Macmillan, Date: 1988-02. Hardcover. Good. 1988. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0719018927 9780719018923 [US]

ISBN10: 0719018927, ISBN13: 9780719018923, [publisher: Manchester University Press] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover, x + 308 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A touch of scuffing and short creases to boards edges. Dust jacket with one short edge-tear, creases along the edges. -- The troubled twentieth century has been characterised perhaps above all else by the threat and actuality of war. As modern technology has raced ahead so the means of destruction have become ever more sophisticated and frightening. The peace movement in Britain has been one of the largest and most significant movements of protest and concern, stretching from the opposition to the First World War through to the mass movement of protest against nuclear weapons of the 1980s. This collection of new essays analyses from a variety of viewpoints some of the areas of crucial significance in the history and politics of the movement. The contributors range from activists engaged in the movement itself to academic scholars of national reputation. Topics covered include women and peace; the Labour Party and CND; the Marxist left and the peace movement; the Christian approach; and critics and critiques of the peace movement. Much of the material presented here is based on original sources and throws new light on historical and political issues of central significance to twentieth-century British society. It is ...
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