Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross

Montgomery, a Communist Party activist in a pre-academic working life, became the Farman Professor of History at Yale University, leading labour historian and editor of the journal, International Labor and Working-Class History. [...]while Ross was consistent over militarism Mann stepped back from anti-war agitation for the duration. [...]these two friends allow Kirk to consider the wider radical transnational world which he argues historians have neglected too.