Semi-Detached Idealists

Building on his previous authoritative work on the British peace movement, Ceadel has produced a definitive historical analysis of its era of maturity - from the Crimean War to the Second World War. His book includes a discussion of the previously neglected late nineteenth century, an account of the movement's most influential period, the late 1920s and early 1930s, and an analysis of opposition to both world wars. Based on primary as well as secondary sources, it locates its subject both in the context of British domestic politics and in the idealist tradition of thinking about international relations.