The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage

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The Floating Press, 2014 M02 1 - 340 pages
Journalist, thinker, and Labour Party politician Sir Ralph Norman Angell played a key role in defining his party's anti-interventionist ethos in the early decades of the twentieth century. In The Great Illusion, he puts forth a convincing argument calling for the end of the military mindset in Europe, based on the assertion that economic interdependence on the continent had made the prospect of war increasingly untenable.
 

Contents

Chapter II The Psychological Case for Peace
151
Chapter III Unchanging Human Nature
174
Chapter IV Do the Warlike Nations Inherit the Earth?
192
Psychological Results
222
A False Analogy and its Consequences
248
PART III THE PRACTICAL OUTCOME
271
Chapter I The Relation of Defence to Aggression
272
Chapter II Armament but Not Alone Armament
282

Chapter V Foreign Trade and Military Power
70
Chapter VI The Indemnity Futility
87
Chapter VII How Colonies Are Owned
103
Chapter VIII The Fight for the Place in the Sun
121
PART II THE HUMAN NATURE AND MORALS OF THE CASE
139
Chapter I The Psychological Case for War
140
Chapter III Is the Political Reformation Possible?
291
Chapter IV Methods
303
Appendix On Recent Events in Europe
315
The Great Illusion and Public Opinion
337
Endnotes
351
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