Table of Contents

Patriotism and politics before 1881; socialists and oppositional Englishness, 1881-1906; constructing British socialism, 1881-1906; the left, England and an imperial war; the Labour party and parliament, 1906-1914; socialism and the German menace in Edwardian Britain; the left, patriotism and the First World War, 1914-1917; the battle for British socialism, 1917-1921; Labour and the nation, 1917-1924.

About the Author

PAUL WARD is lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster.

Reviews

Fine study of the development of British socialist ideas between 1881 and 1924... Ideas mattered within the House of Labour, but the ideas behind Labour politics had more to do with the nation than with the working class.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Deserves to become required reading for all those who are interested in British politics, the British left, and nationalism and internationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
*ARCHIVES*

Lucid and compelling... historians of the left have a great deal to learn from [this book].
*ALBION*

An excellent book. 20TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY It is a strength of this book that it provides a great deal of fascinating documentary detail.
*HISTORY*