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Topical Books
Publisher: Selwyn & Blount.
Place: London, United Kingdom. Dates: 1934-1935.
Young Oxford and War
by Michael Foot, Richard Gavin Freeman, Frank Hardie and Keith Steel-Maitland. Preface by Harold Laski.
London: Selwyn & Blount, 1934 (Topical Books)
"Before departing Selwyn and Blount, Krishna Menon edited a collection of essays from Oxford graduates on war, in response to the Oxford Union’s 'King and Country' debate of February 1933. One of the debate’s participants, future Labour Party leader Michael Foot, contributed an essay, beginning a long collaboration with Krishna Menon which drew Foot into anticolonial politics." -- Mark Reeves, The League Against Imperialism (Leiden University Press, 2020)
TOPICAL BOOKS (SELWYN & BLOUNT)
Series Note: Series editor: V. K. Krishna Menon (1896-1974), who would later be known for being an Indian nationalist and champion of India's anticolonialism and neutralism.
Further reading: Jack Bowman, "The Early Political Thought and Publishing Career of V. K. Krishna Menon, 1928-1938", The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, 2 February 2023, and Mark Reeves, "Two Leagues, One Front? The India League and the League Against Imperialism in the British Left, 1927-1937", in: The League Against Imperialism, Leiden University Press, 2020.
Title / Author / Year of Publication
I Will Not Rest
by Romain Rolland
Translated by Krishnarao Shivarao Shelvankar
1935
Translation of Quinze ans de combat (1919-1934) by Romain Rolland
Crisis in Europe
by George Slocombe
1934
My England
by George Lansbury
1934
Televiewing
by Ernest H. Robinson
1934
Why Fascism?
by Ellen Cicely Wilkinson and Edward Conze
1934
Young Oxford and War
by Michael Foot, Richard Gavin Freeman, Frank Hardie and Keith Steel-Maitland
1934
Preface by Harold Laski
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