A HISTORY OF BRITAIN DURING THE GREAT WAR: A STUDY OF A DEMOCRACY AT WAR - THE ANARCHY BEFORE THE BREAKOUT

William Stanley Macbean Knight

Verlag: The Ridd Masson Company Limited, No. 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, 1915

Beschreibung

First impression of the true first edition, published in 1915 during the First World War. Black and white illustrations and political cartoons throughout. ***Very good in dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and blind borders to front board. Slight off-setting to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Boards slightly rubbed and marked. Edges of boards and spine faded. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***280 pages. 242 x 182 mm. ***Chapters: The Eve of 1914; A New Year's Message; The development of the Home Rule controversy; The Home Rule Struggle on the Eve of the re-opening of Parliament; Sir Edward Carson; The Kikuyu Controversy; Labour at the Opening of the New Year; The Strike in South Africa; Strikes and the Labour conference; General Confusion; The Opening of Parliament; Abasement and Corruption; Germany Looks On. ***'To-day, the one subject of supreme interest to civilization is the world-wide war which is shaking the fabric of modern life to its very foundations. Hence its history is being written in a multitude of different forms. But always that history, so far as subject matter is concerned, is confined in general to an account of the war-operations themselves. ***There is, therefore, one most intimate and important aspect of the War which has been entirely overlooked as a principal subject for treatment - the effect of the War and its incidents upon the individual, national, and the United Kingdom in particular. ***The following pages will accordingly be devoted to a political and social study as distinguished from a study of naval and military operations. They will record the progress and development of public opinion and action in this Country and the Empire during the period of the war and as incident to the War itself.' (Quote from the preface, written London 1915, by W. S. M. Knight). ***Very hard to find first impression of the true first edition of William Stanley Knight: A History of Great Britain During The Great War: A Study of Democracy - the Anarchy Before the Breakout, including chapters on Home Rule published in 1915 written very early in the First World War, and from a more unusual and contemporaneous perspective. Of interest to historians and collectors of first editions about The Great War and the history of Britain during this period. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3262x

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN DURING THE GREAT WAR: A...

Verlag: The Ridd Masson Company Limited, No. 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1915

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued

Auflage: First Edition