The Labour Party and the World, Volume 1: The Evolution of Labour's Foreign Policy, 1900-51

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Manchester University Press, 2003 - History - 232 pages
This is the first book in a two-volume set that looks at the foreign policy of the Labour Party throughout the 20th century, and into the early years of the new millennium. These books rectify the dearth of literature on both the political ideology and history of Labour's foreign policy. Through an in-depth political history of Labour's foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century this first volume produces a new theorization of the nature of the party's foreign policy. It demonstrates that from its inception, the Labour Party has been deeply involved in and interested in international affairs. The book also shows clearly that Labour has provided an important contribution to the development of foreign policy in Britain.
 

Contents

the emergence of the British Labour Party
16
The main political influences on the development
32
Labour and the First World War
54
The Labour minority governments
80
The Labour Party pacifism and the Spanish Civil War
107
Hitler Munich and the Second World War
133
The Attlee governments
159
Conclusion
192
Bibliography
211
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Rhiannon Vickers is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.

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