Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and The New Unhappy Lords

@article{Macklin2012TransatlanticCA,
  title={Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and The New Unhappy Lords},
  author={Graham Macklin},
  journal={Journal of Contemporary History},
  year={2012},
  volume={47},
  pages={270 - 290},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153984405}
}
  • G. Macklin
  • Published 29 March 2012
  • History, Political Science
  • Journal of Contemporary History
The internationalization of political antisemitism in the postwar period has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Studies of organized political antisemtism and far right extremism in postwar Britain has similarly suffered from a lack of focus on the increasingly transatlantic nature of the phenomenon. American scholars meanwhile have determined that the impetus for the ideological transmission of repackaged antisemitic tropes shifted from the Old World to the New after 1945. This… 
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