War and the State: The Transformation of British Government, 1914-1919. Kathleen BurkWar against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First World War. F. L. Carsten

1984 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-729
Author(s):  
Robert Wohl
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
British Government ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Radical Movements

scholarly journals The Dirty Subject of the First World War

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-783
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Derr
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
British Government ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Mission ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

In 1915, soon after Egypt's entry into World War I, the British War Office sent a medical mission to Egypt to investigate the state of bilharzia infection in the country. Bilharzia, also known as schistosomiasis, ran rife among agricultural cultivators in Egypt during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The entry of British-occupied Egypt into the war, and its emergence as a battle theater, heightened fears within the British government that its soldiers would fall prey to the same ailments that plagued Egypt's population.

Mutinies after War

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-190
Author(s):  
Keith Grint
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
First World War ◽  
Canadian Forces ◽  
British Government ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Army ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Return Home ◽  
First World

If mutinies are significant threats to those military parties facing defeat during wars, they are still more dangerous to the victors after the war is ended, when those conscripted for the duration of the war are desperate to return home. This chapter covers three such mutinies: those affecting British forces in 1918 and 1919; those facing Canadian forces in 1919; and finally the mutiny that literally grounded the RAF in 1946 in India and the Far East. The first cases occur in the south of England and France as the First World War is ending, but Churchill in particular was keen to retain both naval and army units to continue the fight against the fledgling Bolshevik regime. What is intriguing about these is just how militant the mutineers were and how the British government treated them with kid gloves, unlike those in the British Foreign Labour units who we meet in chapter 6. For the Canadian army the problem starts in Russia but end up in Wales, as the troops kick their heels waiting to return home and frustrations boil over into gunfights near Rhyl in 1919. Finally, we consider the similar issues prevailing over the RAF in India and the Far East as it becomes clear to the subordinates that they are a long way from home and have little immediate prospect of going home—unless they mutiny.

Philosophical idealism and international politics: Bosanquet, Treitschke and war

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Savigear
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
General Interest ◽  
World War ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Bernard Bosanquet spent the First World War at his cottage in Oxshott, in Surrey, and from here he measured the implications of the conflict for his philosophy of the state. The result of this reflection is available to us in the letters which he wrote during the war, and a variety of lectures and papers. His ideas, therefore, have a general interest to students of international theory.

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