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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross
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'This is an original study of the connected lives of two important socialists, Tom Mann (1856-1941) and Robert Samuel ‘Bob’ Ross (1873-1931). Born in Britain, Mann travelled the globe as a tireless socialist organiser and propagandist who met Ross in the course of his political work in Australia. They then worked closely together as labour editors, educators, trade unionists and socialists in Australia and New Zealand between 1902 and 1913. Thereafter, they continued regularly to correspond with one another and other socialists in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the Pacific Rim. Based upon extensive research into neglected primary and secondary sources in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and related places, this book explores the careers and lives of Mann and Ross as paired transnational radicals, as leaders who crossed national and other boundaries in order to promote their socialism. It situates them within the neglected English-speaking and even global radical worlds of the later nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, a period that constituted an early phase of globalisation. Breaking new ground in moving beyond the national focus which has dominated much of the relevant history, this book highlights both the importance of Mann’s and Ross’s transnational endeavours, attachments and identities and the ways in which these interacted with their national, sub-national and international spheres of activity, striking a chord with a wide variety of radicals seeking change in today’s globalised world.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Liverpool, Merseyside,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Liverpool University Press ,
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      Extent: viii, 293 pp.
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      • Published: January 25, 2017

      ISBN: 9781786940094

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross Frank Bongiorno , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , September vol. 63 no. 3 2017; (p. 487–488)

'The connected radical lives of Tom Mann and Bob Ross allow the British labour biographer-historian, Neville Kirk, to take his readers on a tour of many of the countries of settler empire, and occasionally beyond it. Mann was a much-admired and much-travelled British labour leader who lived for much of the first decade of the twentieth century in Australia and New Zealand, playing a formative role in political and industrial mobilisation and organisation. The Australian-born Ross was less peripatetic, moving between paid gigs, usually in radical journalism, in Brisbane, Melbourne, Broken Hill and New Zealand.'  (Introduction)

[Review Essay] Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross Frank Bongiorno , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , September vol. 63 no. 3 2017; (p. 487–488)

'The connected radical lives of Tom Mann and Bob Ross allow the British labour biographer-historian, Neville Kirk, to take his readers on a tour of many of the countries of settler empire, and occasionally beyond it. Mann was a much-admired and much-travelled British labour leader who lived for much of the first decade of the twentieth century in Australia and New Zealand, playing a formative role in political and industrial mobilisation and organisation. The Australian-born Ross was less peripatetic, moving between paid gigs, usually in radical journalism, in Brisbane, Melbourne, Broken Hill and New Zealand.'  (Introduction)

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