The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that, from humble beginings in 1914, a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a still greater level of suppression prepared but not implemented. The general characteristics of the system of dissent manage ment were that it was incremental, growing in proportion to the degree of apprehended threat to the war effort; it never became more repressive than a working consensus of the...
The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He...
The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that, from humble beginings in 1914, a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a still greater level of suppression prepared but not implemented. The general characteristics of the system of dissent manage ment were that it was incremental, growing in proportion to the degree of apprehended threat to the war effort; it never became more repressive than a working consensus of the...
The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He...
British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became governable, following the defeat of Abdullah Hassan, to independence.
Describing the interplay between general imperial policies, and greater realities and developments in Somaliland, the focus of the book remains on the mechanism by which the Protectorate was operated. The regime that developed was, in the end, a highly autocratic despotism, generally benign but occasionally predatory. Independence, when it arrived, was, in retrospect, a tragedy....
British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became gover...
Brock Millman considers the range of influences that promoted pessimism in the British establishment towards the end of World War One. These included the effects of the Russian Revolution and war fatigue amongst many other pressing factors.
Brock Millman considers the range of influences that promoted pessimism in the British establishment towards the end of World War One. These included ...
