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Examines how throughout the twentieth century Labour's international policies have been influenced by domestic politics, and how in turn world events and Labour's response to them have helped to change the party's ideology, political culture and domestic agenda from the 1920s up to the Iraq War.

How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? This work offers a critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. It addresses and analyses the cultural material that produced Greece's representation as both Europe's origin and 'other'.

Formed out of a breakaway from the mainstream Liberal party in 1931, the Liberal National party preserved a separate identity for almost 40 years. This book shows readers how the National Liberals were a potent force in shaping the evolution of British politics in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance. This title presents a political biography of a significant Labour figure at both a local and national level and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s.

This is an essential textbook for all students of nineteenth-century British political history, the Conservative Party and modern Conservatism, and includes themes of striking contemporary relevance.

Looks at a vital facet of Right-wing thought in the early twentieth century. Presenting an approach uniting intellectual history with political theory, this book is a contribution to the cultural debate on 'intellectuals and the masses'.

Seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. This book also explores concepts, such as equality, liberty, community, power, the state, ownership and patriotism.

At the turn of the 19th century, Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. This book presents the story of how and why Slovakia came to be.

The end of World War II intensified Morocco's nationalist struggle against French colonial rule, with the establishment of the Istiqlal ('independence') party and the Moroccan Sultan's emergence as a national leader. This book presents the background to the Istiqlal's establishment, its initial actions and demands.

Presents a study of the British Left's response to the rise of international fascism in the 1930s. This title analyses how the Labour left reacted to threats from the fascist dictators, and argues that their responses were shaped above all by their constantly changing views of another dictatorship: the Soviet Union under Stalin.