Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain: The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire (New Historical Perspectives) - Softcover

Thompson, Rowan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908590793 ISBN 13: 9781908590794

Verlag: University of London Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of Edwardian political culture, 1918 often marks a terminus for histories of organised militarism in Britain. Taking the end of the First World War as its starting point instead, this book is the first full-length study of militarism and militaristic associational culture in interwar Britain. It argues that militarism was able to survive the 1914-1918 conflict, despite the competing rise of liberal internationalism, pacifism and anti-war sentiment. Focusing on the ideas, aims and activities of the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire - two extra-parliamentary organisations established to promote naval and aerial supremacy - the book examines how the Leagues negotiated the trauma of the First World War and how they contributed to the societal and military preparation for a second global conflict as the clouds of war gathered in the late 1930s.

Drawing on extensive archival research, the book explains how these Leagues mobilised broad public and political support and what the story of each organisation tells us about the impact of war on British society and culture, civil-military relations, political and private activism, military theatre and commemoration, youth, and the politics of disarmament, collective security, internationalism and national defence. In doing so, it demonstrates that martial and militaristic sentiment remained an important part of mainstream British political culture, despite the ravages of war.

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Rowan Thompson is a historian of modern Britain, with research interests in militarism, military culture, and associationalism. He was recently a research fellow on the Society for Educational Studies-funded project, University Access and Student Life in the Aftermath of the Great War. From 2020-21, he held the Alan Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR). His research has received funding from Northumbria University, the IHR, the Royal Historical Society, the Social History Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Society for Nautical Research, the Society for Theatre Research, and the World Ship Society.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of London Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908590793
• ISBN 13: 9781908590794
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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