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Veteran MPs and Conservative politics in the aftermath of the Great War : the memory of all that / Richard Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Richard, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservative Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century.
- Conservative Party (Great Britain).
- Legislators--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Legislators.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Influence.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital.
- Contents:
- The meaning of conflict
- Reaching Westminster
- The impact of Baldwin and the search for dynamism, c.1918-1929
- Logical Tories? Reflecting on Mosley and the democratic process, c.1929-1935
- Dictatorship, empire and foreign policy
- A second war and debates over reform.
- Notes:
- "First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-54836-4
- 1-317-00240-7
- 1-4094-4104-0
- 1-299-18405-7
- 9781315548364
- OCLC:
- 828423753
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