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urn:uuid:88c66d83-2734-49d9-9ef8-ff6f5da7e1b6 03 01 01 urn:uuid:88c66d83-2734-49d9-9ef8-ff6f5da7e1b6 15 9781908590800 06 10.63674/pycy9503 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 01 01 Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire 1 A01 21 0000-0001-7138-3043 Rowan Thompson 01 eng 12 HBW 10 HIS054000 B2 History 20 Navy 93 NHW 12 1DB 20 Air League B2 BRH 10 HIS027000 93 JWT 12 3JJF 93 3MP 20 British Empire 10 HIS015070 10 1.1.0.0.0.0.0 12 3JJG 20 militarism 12 3JJH 20 military culture 20 militarisation 20 voluntary societies 20 associational culture 20 civic ritual 20 heritage 20 modernity 20 technology 20 youth 03 00 <p>While militaristic and patriotic organisations formed an important part of political culture in Edwardian Britain, 1918 often marks a terminus for histories of organised militarism. Taking the end of the First World War as its starting point instead, this book is the first full-length study of militarism and militaristic associational culture in interwar Britain. It argues that militarism was able to survive World War One, despite the competing rise of liberal internationalism, pacifism, and anti-war sentiment. Focusing on the ideas, aims, and activities of the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire – two extra-parliamentary organisations established to promote naval and aerial supremacy – the book examines how the Leagues negotiated the trauma of the First World War and how they contributed to the societal and military preparation for a second global conflict as the clouds of war gathered in the late 1930s.</p><p>Drawing on extensive archival research, the book explains how these Leagues mobilised broad public and political support and what the story of each organisation tells us about the impact of war on British society and culture, civil-military relations, political and private activism, military theatre and commemoration, youth, and the politics of disarmament, collective security, internationalism, and national defence. In doing so, it demonstrates that martial and militaristic sentiment remained an important part of mainstream British political culture, despite the ravages of war.</p> 20 00 Open Access University of London Press 01 University of London Press London, GB 04 01 20260409 13 15 9781908590787 09 University of London Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://uolpress.co.uk/book/organised-militarism-in-interwar-britain/ 99 01 09 University of London Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.63674/pycy9503.pdf 99 01