TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarthy,Helen
TI  - The British people and the League of Nations: Democracy, citizenship and internationalism, c.1918?45
SN  - 9781847794284
AV  - DA578 .B758 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - League of Nations Union
KW  - History
KW  - League of Nations
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Internationalism
KW  - Social history
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the respectable faceof troublemaking; 1. The League of Nations, public opinion and the New Diplomacy; 2. Of all parties and of none: the League in party politics; 3. Members one of another: Christianity, religion and the League; 4. Training for world citizenship: internationalist education betweenthe wars; 5. Enlightened patriots: League, empire, nation; 6. Classes and cultures? Leagueactivism and class politics; 7. Mothering the world: the making of a gendered internationalism; 8. The quiet citizen silenced: the failure of political centrism, 1936-39Conclusion: democratising foreign policy between the wars; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - In the decades following Europe?s first total war, millions of British men and women looked to the League of Nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operation. Founded in 1919 to preserve peace between its member-states, the League inspired a rich, participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual which found expression through the establishment of voluntary societies in dozens of countries across Europe and beyond. Embodied in the hugely popular League of Nations Union, this pro-League movement touched Britain in profound
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