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Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914

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  1. Matthew Johnson

    1. University College, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Ideological Context: War, Martial Values, and Military Prestige

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 20-44

  4. Civil-Military Relations under the Pre-War Liberal Governments

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 45-65

  5. The Militarization of the State: Armaments, Popular Navalism, and the Liberal Party

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 66-89

  6. The Militarization of Society: Compulsory Service, the National Service League, and Progressive Politics

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 90-132

  7. Alternatives to Conscription: Richard Burdon Haldane and a ‘Liberal’ Nation-in-Arms

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 133-155

  8. Conclusion and Epilogue: Militarism and the Left by 1914, the Great War, and the Coming of Conscription

    • Matthew Johnson
    Pages 156-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-247
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About this book

Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree.

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'An analytically rigorous and thoroughly researched challenge to the influential and simplistic identification of early twentieth century British militarism with the Radical Right. The insistence on grounding the analysis of British militarism in context liberates assessment of claims for British exceptionalism from constricting comparisons with a paradigmatic Prussianism.'

- Professor David Howell, University of York

Authors and Affiliations

  • University College, Oxford, UK

    Matthew Johnson

About the author

MATTHEW JOHNSON is the Stevenson Junior Research Fellow in History at University College, Oxford, UK. This is his first book.

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