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Oxford University Press, USA 2/15/2001 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945. ISBN 0199241171 9780199241170 [GB]
Oxford University Press, USA 2/15/2001 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0199241171, ISBN13: 9780199241170, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international relations (unlike most of Europe), yet too close to the continent for isolationism to be an option (as it was in the United States), the country has provided favourable conditions for those aspiring not merely to prevent war but to abolish it. Theperiod from the Crimean War to the Second World War marked the British peace movement's age of maturity. In 1854, it was obliged for the first time to contest a decision - and moreover a highly popularone - to enter war. It survived the resulting adversity, and gradually rebuilt its position as an accepted voice in public life, though by the end of the nineteenth century its leading associations such as the Peace Society were losing vitality as they gained respectability. Stimulated by the First World War into radicalizing and reconstructing itself through the formation of such associations as the Union of Democratic Control, the No-Conscription Fellowship, and the Fellowship ofReconciliation, the movement endured another period of unpopularity before enjoying unprecedented influence during the inter-war years, the era of the League of Nations Union, the Oxford Union's 'King and country'debate, the ...
ISBN10: 0199241171, ISBN13: 9780199241170, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influenced by an idealistic approach to international relations (unlike most of Europe), yet too close to the continent for isolationism to be an option (as it was in the United States), the country has provided favourable conditions for those aspiring not merely to prevent war but to abolish it. Theperiod from the Crimean War to the Second World War marked the British peace movement's age of maturity. In 1854, it was obliged for the first time to contest a decision - and moreover a highly popularone - to enter war. It survived the resulting adversity, and gradually rebuilt its position as an accepted voice in public life, though by the end of the nineteenth century its leading associations such as the Peace Society were losing vitality as they gained respectability. Stimulated by the First World War into radicalizing and reconstructing itself through the formation of such associations as the Union of Democratic Control, the No-Conscription Fellowship, and the Fellowship ofReconciliation, the movement endured another period of unpopularity before enjoying unprecedented influence during the inter-war years, the era of the League of Nations Union, the Oxford Union's 'King and country'debate, the ...
ISBN10: 0199241171, ISBN13: 9780199241170, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.76 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 0199241171, ISBN13: 9780199241170, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 0199241171 [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2001]
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