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1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: An Electoral Problem; Ludlow, April 1923; 'A Thing of the Town'; 'The Key to Power': Electoral Arithmetic; Defining 'Rural' Constituencies; I. POLITICAL LANDSCAPES; II. THE RURAL LABOUR MOVEMENT; III. PLANNING THE FUTURE; Conclusion: Reclaiming the Ground?; Brecon and Radnor, August 1939; Socialism in the Villages?; The Electoral Record; The Country Road to 1945; An Epilogue: Ludlow, June 2001; Appendix A. Labour's 'rural' constituencies; Appendix B. The rural campaigns |
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Appendix C. Labour victories in rural seats, 1918-1945Appendix D. Biographies; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on new research, this book uncovers a fascinating but previously neglected chapter in the history of the Labour Party. As Labour was becoming a national force at the end of the First World War, many people believed that the party would be unable to form a majority government unless it won support in the countryside. During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. Labour and the. Countryside re-examines common perceptions of an antagonism between Labour policies and rural Britain in a timely and illuminating |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-382) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Labour Party (Great Britain)
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Labour Party (Great Britain) fast |
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Country life -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Country life -- Political aspects
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Rural conditions
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Labour Party (Groot-Brittannië)
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Agrarisch beleid.
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Great Britain -- Rural conditions -- 20th century
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Great Britain
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441607201 |
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144160720X |
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9780191536977 |
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0191536970 |
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1281154539 |
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9781281154538 |
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