Peter Weiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 994188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Weiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiler |
| SIGNATURE | WEILER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labour and the Land
Angered by an unprecedented rise in house and land prices and by the depredations of property developers such as Harry Hyams, who built Centre Point, the Labour Party unanimously embraced land nationalization at the 1972 and 1973 conferences. In the event, the Labour government that came to power in 1974 did not nationalize the land, but it did pass the Community Land Act empowering local authorities to acquire at 'use value' land that could be u…
The Making of British Socialism
Histories of Labour
Book Review| March 01 2012 Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives / Making History: Organizations of Labour Historians in Britain since 1960; Labour History Review Fiftieth Anniversary Supplement Histories of Labour: National and International PerspectivesAllen, Joan, Campbell, Alan, and McIlroy, John, editors Pontypool, Wales: Merlin Press, 2010viii + 399 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper)Making History: Organizations of L…
Seeking a Role
Journal Article Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970. By Brian Harrison. Get access Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970. By Brian Harrison. Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, Oxford (The New Oxford History of England Series), 2009. xxi + 658 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820476-3, £30/$60. Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Boston College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century …
Labour and the Land
This article examines the Labour Party's changing commitment to land reform in the 1950s and 1960s, a commitment that featured more prominently in the party's plans than historians have realized. In the 1950s Labour promised to ‘municipalize’ all rent-controlled dwellings, some six million houses and flats. After municipalization proved electorally unattractive in 1959 Labour turned to the idea of a Land Commission to purchase all commercially de…
Women and Work Culture
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The Cultural Cold War
The literature on the CIA's covert operations in Britain and the rest of Europe after the Second World War is now voluminous.1 For example, the CIA's ties to the Congress of Cultural Freedom (CCF), which Hugh Wilford calls “the U.S.'s principal weapon in the Cultural Cold War, the superpower struggle for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the world's intellectuals” (p. 101), or to similar organizations, are well known. Wilford's book therefore does not ai…
The Conservatives' Search for a Middle Way in Housing, 1951-64
The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, determined to create a property‐owning democracy by freeing the market in land and housing. But freeing the market proved to be no panacea and aroused much criticism. Most important, public housing continued to expand as the major alternative to private home ownership, in part because the supply of private rented housing declined precipitously. Dismayed at this situation, the Conservatives became incre…
The rise and fall of the conservatives' ‘grand design for housing’, 1951–64
When they returned to power in 1951 the Conservatives aimed to restore the dominance of the market in housing and property and by early 1953 Harold Macmillan, the Minister of Housing, had put forth a ‘grand design’ to achieve that goal by phasing out rent control, making council housing a residual social service only for those in need, and thus further encouraging home ownership. But, as the Conservatives had feared from the start, the various st…
Britain and the First Cold War
Britain and the First Cold War: Revisionist Beginnings Get access PETER WEILER PETER WEILER Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/9.1.127 Published: 01 January 1998
British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War 1944-49
Britain's wartime allies, post-war planning and the future of the Empire the Empire and global strategy - imperial needs defined April 1944-August 1945 Empire and global strategy 1944-46 - implementing an imperial strategy and the breakdown of allied cooperation, September 1945-December 1946 Empire and global strategy 1944-46, the implementation of an imperial strategy - the Empire and the pursuit of European cooperation 1945-46 drowning European…
Labour at war
Europe
Denis MacShane, International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War. Oxford
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Working-Class Interests and the Politics of Social Democratic Reform in Britain, 1900–1940
When nineteenth-century liberals searched for reasons not to enfranchise the lower orders, they most often hit upon the argument that, once given the vote, workers would use it to elect governments pledged to redistribution and welfare at the expense of property. A cursory look at the political history of the twentieth century suggests they were not entirely deluded. Indeed, the most salient facts about political development since 1900 surely are…
The Triumph of the British New Right
Europe
British Labour and the Cold War
British Labour and the Cold War
Labour took office in 1945 amid high hopes that its socialist message could be applied abroad as well as at home. Although Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and other Labour leaders had had almost as much responsibility as their Conservative counterparts for Britain's wartime foreign policy, it was widely believed that once on its own Labour would play a different role in world affairs. Let Us Face the Future , the party's election manifesto, pledged…
Radical History in Retrospect
Forming Responsible Trade Unions
Research Article| May 01 1984 Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial labor, and the Trades Union Congress Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 367–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Weiler; Forming Responsible T…
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain
The United States, International Labor, and the Cold War
Journal Article The United States, International Labor, and the Cold War: The Breakup of the World Federation of Trade Unions Get access Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1981, Pages 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1981.tb00649.x Published: 01 June 2007
Liberalism and Sociology
Shattered Peace
Research Article| January 01 1979 Shattered Peace Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1979) 1978-79 (19): 188–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-79-19-188 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Weiler; Shattered Peace. Radical History Review 1 January 1979; 1978-79 (19): 188–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-79-19…
British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War 1944-49
Britain's wartime allies, post-war planning and the future of the Empire the Empire and global strategy - imperial needs defined April 1944-August 1945 Empire and global strategy 1944-46 - implementing an imperial strategy and the breakdown of allied cooperation, September 1945-December 1946 Empire and global strategy 1944-46, the implementation of an imperial strategy - the Empire and the pursuit of European cooperation 1945-46 drowning European…
Working-Class Interests and the Politics of Social Democratic Reform in Britain, 1900–1940
When nineteenth-century liberals searched for reasons not to enfranchise the lower orders, they most often hit upon the argument that, once given the vote, workers would use it to elect governments pledged to redistribution and welfare at the expense of property. A cursory look at the political history of the twentieth century suggests they were not entirely deluded. Indeed, the most salient facts about political development since 1900 surely are…
The rise and fall of the conservatives' ‘grand design for housing’, 1951–64
When they returned to power in 1951 the Conservatives aimed to restore the dominance of the market in housing and property and by early 1953 Harold Macmillan, the Minister of Housing, had put forth a ‘grand design’ to achieve that goal by phasing out rent control, making council housing a residual social service only for those in need, and thus further encouraging home ownership. But, as the Conservatives had feared from the start, the various st…
British Labour and the Cold War
Labour took office in 1945 amid high hopes that its socialist message could be applied abroad as well as at home. Although Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and other Labour leaders had had almost as much responsibility as their Conservative counterparts for Britain's wartime foreign policy, it was widely believed that once on its own Labour would play a different role in world affairs. Let Us Face the Future , the party's election manifesto, pledged…
Labour and the Land
Angered by an unprecedented rise in house and land prices and by the depredations of property developers such as Harry Hyams, who built Centre Point, the Labour Party unanimously embraced land nationalization at the 1972 and 1973 conferences. In the event, the Labour government that came to power in 1974 did not nationalize the land, but it did pass the Community Land Act empowering local authorities to acquire at 'use value' land that could be u…
Labour and the Land
This article examines the Labour Party's changing commitment to land reform in the 1950s and 1960s, a commitment that featured more prominently in the party's plans than historians have realized. In the 1950s Labour promised to ‘municipalize’ all rent-controlled dwellings, some six million houses and flats. After municipalization proved electorally unattractive in 1959 Labour turned to the idea of a Land Commission to purchase all commercially de…
The Conservatives' Search for a Middle Way in Housing, 1951-64
The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, determined to create a property‐owning democracy by freeing the market in land and housing. But freeing the market proved to be no panacea and aroused much criticism. Most important, public housing continued to expand as the major alternative to private home ownership, in part because the supply of private rented housing declined precipitously. Dismayed at this situation, the Conservatives became incre…
Britain and the First Cold War
Britain and the First Cold War: Revisionist Beginnings Get access PETER WEILER PETER WEILER Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/9.1.127 Published: 01 January 1998
The Triumph of the British New Right
British Labour and the Cold War
Forming Responsible Trade Unions
Research Article| May 01 1984 Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial labor, and the Trades Union Congress Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 367–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Weiler; Forming Responsible T…
William Clarke
None of the early Fabians remains more obscure today than William Clarke (1852-1901 ). Although his contribution to the Fabian Essays ranks as perhaps the most interesting and perceptive essay in that volume, histories of the Fabian Society pass over Clarke with a line or two of praise. Nevertheless, Clarke's socialism deserves more attention. It is interesting in itself as an early English analysis of monopoly capitalism and as another example o…
Shattered Peace
Research Article| January 01 1979 Shattered Peace Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1979) 1978-79 (19): 188–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-79-19-188 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Weiler; Shattered Peace. Radical History Review 1 January 1979; 1978-79 (19): 188–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1978-79-19…
Liberalism and Sociology
The United States, International Labor, and the Cold War
Journal Article The United States, International Labor, and the Cold War: The Breakup of the World Federation of Trade Unions Get access Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1981, Pages 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1981.tb00649.x Published: 01 June 2007
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain
Forming Responsible Trade Unions
Research Article| May 01 1984 Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial labor, and the Trades Union Congress Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 367–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Weiler; Forming Responsible T…
Radical History in Retrospect
British Labour and the Cold War
Labour took office in 1945 amid high hopes that its socialist message could be applied abroad as well as at home. Although Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and other Labour leaders had had almost as much responsibility as their Conservative counterparts for Britain's wartime foreign policy, it was widely believed that once on its own Labour would play a different role in world affairs. Let Us Face the Future , the party's election manifesto, pledged…
Europe
British Labour and the Cold War
Working-Class Interests and the Politics of Social Democratic Reform in Britain, 1900–1940
When nineteenth-century liberals searched for reasons not to enfranchise the lower orders, they most often hit upon the argument that, once given the vote, workers would use it to elect governments pledged to redistribution and welfare at the expense of property. A cursory look at the political history of the twentieth century suggests they were not entirely deluded. Indeed, the most salient facts about political development since 1900 surely are…
The Triumph of the British New Right
Denis MacShane, International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War. Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Labour at war
Europe
British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War 1944-49
Britain's wartime allies, post-war planning and the future of the Empire the Empire and global strategy - imperial needs defined April 1944-August 1945 Empire and global strategy 1944-46 - implementing an imperial strategy and the breakdown of allied cooperation, September 1945-December 1946 Empire and global strategy 1944-46, the implementation of an imperial strategy - the Empire and the pursuit of European cooperation 1945-46 drowning European…
Britain and the First Cold War
Britain and the First Cold War: Revisionist Beginnings Get access PETER WEILER PETER WEILER Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 127–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/9.1.127 Published: 01 January 1998
The rise and fall of the conservatives' ‘grand design for housing’, 1951–64
When they returned to power in 1951 the Conservatives aimed to restore the dominance of the market in housing and property and by early 1953 Harold Macmillan, the Minister of Housing, had put forth a ‘grand design’ to achieve that goal by phasing out rent control, making council housing a residual social service only for those in need, and thus further encouraging home ownership. But, as the Conservatives had feared from the start, the various st…
The Conservatives' Search for a Middle Way in Housing, 1951-64
The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, determined to create a property‐owning democracy by freeing the market in land and housing. But freeing the market proved to be no panacea and aroused much criticism. Most important, public housing continued to expand as the major alternative to private home ownership, in part because the supply of private rented housing declined precipitously. Dismayed at this situation, the Conservatives became incre…
The Cultural Cold War
The literature on the CIA's covert operations in Britain and the rest of Europe after the Second World War is now voluminous.1 For example, the CIA's ties to the Congress of Cultural Freedom (CCF), which Hugh Wilford calls “the U.S.'s principal weapon in the Cultural Cold War, the superpower struggle for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the world's intellectuals” (p. 101), or to similar organizations, are well known. Wilford's book therefore does not ai…
Women and Work Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Labour and the Land
This article examines the Labour Party's changing commitment to land reform in the 1950s and 1960s, a commitment that featured more prominently in the party's plans than historians have realized. In the 1950s Labour promised to ‘municipalize’ all rent-controlled dwellings, some six million houses and flats. After municipalization proved electorally unattractive in 1959 Labour turned to the idea of a Land Commission to purchase all commercially de…
Seeking a Role
Journal Article Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970. By Brian Harrison. Get access Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970. By Brian Harrison. Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, Oxford (The New Oxford History of England Series), 2009. xxi + 658 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820476-3, £30/$60. Peter Weiler Peter Weiler Boston College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century …
The Making of British Socialism
Histories of Labour
Book Review| March 01 2012 Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives / Making History: Organizations of Labour Historians in Britain since 1960; Labour History Review Fiftieth Anniversary Supplement Histories of Labour: National and International PerspectivesAllen, Joan, Campbell, Alan, and McIlroy, John, editors Pontypool, Wales: Merlin Press, 2010viii + 399 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper)Making History: Organizations of L…
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