The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National AdvantageThe 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
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Chapter IV The Impossibility of Confiscation | 56 |
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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