TY  - GEN
T1  - The opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918
T2  - Studies in Welsh history ;
A1  - Eirug, Aled
LA  - English
PP  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1056952243
AB  - This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain. It is, therefore, a significant contribution to our understanding of people's responses to the conflict, and the difficulty of mobilising the population for total war. The anti-war movement in Wales and beyond developed quickly from the initial shock of the declaration of war, to the civil disobedience of anti-war activists and the industrial discontent excited by the Russian Revolution and experienced in areas such as the south Wales coalfield in 1917. The differing responses to the war within Wales are explored in this book, which charts how the pacifist tradition of nineteenth-century Welsh Nonconformity was quickly overturned. The two main elements of the anti-war movement are analysed in depth: the pacifist religious opposition, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Nonconformist dissidents who were particularly influential in north and west Wales; and the political opposition concentrated in the Independent Labour Party and among the radical left within the South Wales Miners' Federation.
CN  - D639.P77
SN  - 9781786833150
SN  - 1786833158
SN  - 9781786833143 (pbk.)
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Protest movements : Wales.
KW  - Peace movements : Wales : History.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Contestation : Pays de Galles.
KW  - Mouvements pacifistes : Pays de Galles : Histoire.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - Peace movements
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Wales
KW  - 1914-1918
KW  - History
ER  -