People Power

Fighting for Peace from the First World War to the Present

Lyn Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2017
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-51915-8 (ISBN)

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A fascinating look at the anti-war movement in the UK over the past century, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London, from 23 March to 28 August 2017.

People Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, telling the story of conscientious objectors and others who have been engaged in protest over the past century. Drawing on testimonies from the Imperial War Museum’s vast collection, and its rich archive of visual material, including photographs, paintings, posters, cartoons and badges, the book explores the wide-ranging reasons for opposing war and examines the changes and continuity in the movement as the nature of conflict has evolved from trench warfare to nuclear weapons. The role of key organizations and groups within the movement is examined, such as the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the 1980s, as well as that of high-profile individual campaigners, including Fenner Brockway and Tony Benn. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in 2017, People Power is an important and compelling counterpart to the myriad histories of war in the past 100 years.

Lyn Smith is the author of Pacifists in Action, Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust, Voices Against War and the bestselling Young Voices. She has lectured in International Relations and Human Rights at British and American Universities, and has worked has a freelance interviewer for the Imperial War Museum.

1. First World War: The Foundation is Laid • 2. The Interwar Years: Development of the Peace Movement, 1919–1939 • 3. Second World War: Against Total War, 1939–1945 4. Cold War (1): Against Nuclear Weapons; Cold War (2): Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp • 5. The Modern Era: post 1990

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	with 197 illustrations in colour and black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 230 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-500-51915-3 / 0500519153
ISBN-13	978-0-500-51915-8 / 9780500519158
Zustand	Neuware