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Routledge
The eight books reprinted in this set played an important role in defining attitudes and expectations about imperialism on the British Left in the twentieth century. They are vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the nineteenth century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the twentieth.
Volume 1 Empire or Democracy [1939] Leonard Barnes 303pp Volume 2 The War of Steel and Gold [1914] Henry N. Brailsford 320pp Volume 3 Patriotism and the Empire [1899] J.M. Robertson 208pp Volume 4 Democracy after the War [1917] J.A. Hobson 215pp Volume 5 Liberalism and the Empire [1907] F.W. Hirst 240pp Volume 6 Africa and the Peace of Europe E.D. Morel 150pp Volume 7 Empire and Commerce in Africa [1920] Leonard Woolf 382pp Volume 8 Labour and the Empire [1907] J. Ramsey Macdonald 127pp
Biography
Peter Cain
