Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present

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This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon extensive primary and secondary source-based research in Britain and Australia over several years, it makes a new and original contribution to the fields of labour, imperial and 'British world' history. The book offers the challenging conclusion that the forces of nation, empire and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in both countries than suggested by 'traditionalists' and 'revisionists' alike. The book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars in history and politics and all those interested in and concerned with the past, present and future of Labour politics in Britain, Australia and more generally. -- .

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This is a well-written and widely researched comparative and transnational history of two of the most significant Labour/Labor parties in the Anglophone world, Britain's Labour Party and Australia's Labor Party -- .

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Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University