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Author : David Widgery
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Left in Britain, 1956-68 written by David Widgery and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : David Widgery
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Left in Britain, 1956-68 written by David Widgery and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evan Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526113658
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Revolution written by Evan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion piece to 2014's Against the grain, this collection of essays explores trajectories in the British far left from 1956 to the present day.
Author : James Klugmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cold War, Crisis and Conflict written by James Klugmann and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume Five of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century, and covers the period from 1951 to 1968. The cold war was at its most intense during this period, and it was also the time of the dramas of 1956 - Khruschev's critique of Stalin, the Hungarian uprising and the Suez crisis. Then in the 1960s the opening up of new possibilities for radicalism began, leading up to the events of May 1968. The impact of these events on the Party is extensively analysed, drawing on evidence from detailed archival research and many interviews with former activists. Topics covered include: the nature of the Party and its Soviet 'ecology'; its responses to the events of 1956; its involvement in anti-colonial struggles; its positions on international and economic issues and perspectives on class struggle; its relationship with the Labour Party and the trade unions; and the forces for change in the Party in the 1960s. Times change, and John Callaghan's book differs from previous volumes in this series in a number of ways - most obviously, in that it was written after the demise of the Soviet Union and the Party, and thus with much better access to archives and the views of former party members. In addition, it is organised thematically rather than chronologically, and is written from a more critical position than previous titles in the series. It shares with its predecessors, however, the idea that a history of the CPGB has some importance, not least for the light it casts on some of the key issues of the twentieth century.
Author : Lucy Robinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781847792334
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Gay Men and the Left in Post-war Britain written by Lucy Robinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, his book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexuality. Throughout the post-war years, the new cult of the teenager in the 1950s, CND and the counter-culture of the 1960s, gay liberation, feminism, the Punk movement and the miners' strike of 1984 all helped to build a politics of identity. There is an assumption among many of today's politicians that young people are apathetic and disengaged. This book argues that these politicians are looking in the wrong place. People now feel that they can impact the world through the way in which they live, shop, have sex and organise their private lives. Robinson shows that gay men and their politics have been central to this change in the post-war world.
Author : Caroline Hoefferle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041589381X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book British Student Activism in the Long Sixties written by Caroline Hoefferle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixtiesreconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide variety of primary and secondary sources from across Britain and the world, making this project the first book-length history of the British student movement to employ literary and theoretical frameworks which differentiate it from most other histories of student activism to date. Globalization, especially of mass communications, made British students aware of global problems such as the threat of nuclear weapons, the Vietnam War, racism, sexism and injustice. British students applied these global ideas to their own unique circumstances, using their intellectual traditions and political theories which resulted in unique outcomes. British student activists effectively gained support from students, staff, and workers for their struggle for student’s rights to unionize, freely assemble and speak, and participate in university decision-making. Their campaigns effectively raised public awareness of these issues and contributed to significant national decisions in many considerable areas.
Author : Michael Kenny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The First New Left written by Michael Kenny and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting periods in the intellectual history of the left in Britain. This short period saw the beginning of many future theoretical developments in radical politics, and the founder members of the New Left are now associated with groundbreaking work in history, culture and politics.
Author : David Grealy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350294888
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy written by David Grealy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the evolution of human rights diplomacy during the second half of the 20th century has been the subject of a wealth of scholarship in recent years, British foreign policy perspectives remain largely underappreciated. Focusing on former Foreign Secretary David Owen's sustained engagement with the related concepts of human rights and humanitarianism, David Owen, Human Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy addresses this striking omission by exploring the relationship between international human rights promotion and British foreign policy between c.1956-1997. In doing so, this book uncovers how human rights concerns have shaped national responses to foreign policy dilemmas at the intersections of civil society, media, and policymaking; how economic and geopolitical interests have defined the parameters within which human rights concerns influence policy; how human rights considerations have influenced British interventions in overseas conflicts; and how activism on normative issues such as human rights has been shaped by concepts of national identity. Furthermore, by bringing these issues and debates into focus through the lens of Owen's human rights advocacy, analysis provides a reappraisal of one of the most recognisable, albeit enigmatic, parliamentarians in recent British history. Both within the confines of Whitehall and without, Owen's human rights advocacy served to alter the course of British foreign policy at key junctures during the late Cold War and post-Cold War periods, and provides a unique prism through which to interrogate the intersections between Britain's enduring search for a distinctive 'role' in the world and the development of the international human rights regime during the period in question.
Author : Howard Malchow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773998
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Special Relations written by Howard Malchow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, Special Relations explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia.
Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441179135
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain written by Alan Sinfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Author : John Mcllroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429842961
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics written by John Mcllroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a civilian life in 1945. Following the rise of the Labour party in Britain until 1964.
Author : Lin Zhun
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British New Left written by Lin Zhun and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic, scholarly and sympathetic treatment of the rise and fall of the British New Left. Though briefly part of the upsurge of '1968', the New Left project in Britain was remarkably distinct from the main international movement. This book examines the work of Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Ralph Miliband, Stuart Hall, Perry Anderson and many others, who together forged a particularly British form of new leftism from the 1950s to 1970s.
Author : Gareth Dale
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541481
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Karl Polanyi written by Gareth Dale and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biography shows how the major personal and historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy, communism, the New Deal, and the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America. The book begins with Polanyi's childhood in the Habsburg Empire and his involvement with the Great War and Hungary's postwar revolution. It connects Polanyi's idealistic radicalism to the political promise and intellectual ferment of Red Vienna and the horror of fascism. The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English, German, and Hungarian, includes exhaustive research in five archives, and features interviews with Polanyi's daughter, students, and colleagues, clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work. These personal accounts also shed light on Polanyi's connections to scholars, Christians, atheists, journalists, hot and cold warriors, and socialists of all stripes. Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left engages with Polanyi's biography as a reflection and condensation of extraordinary times. It highlights the historical ruptures, tensions, and upheavals that the thinker sought to capture and comprehend and, in telling his story, engages with the intellectual and political history of a turbulent epoch.
Author : Dennis L. Dworkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319146
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain written by Dennis L. Dworkin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of British cultural Marxism. This book traces its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, up to the advent of Thatcherism, to reflect a tradition, that represents an effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar British Left.
Author : Nigel Copsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317397622
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Anti-Fascism in Britain written by Nigel Copsey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists. Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition, this book continues to provide the definitive account of anti-fascism in Britain from its roots in the 1930s opposition to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, to the street demonstrations and online campaigns of the twenty-first century. The author draws on an impressive range of sources including official government, police and security services records, the writings and recollections of activists themselves, and the publications and propaganda of anti-fascist groups and their opponents. The book traces the ideological, tactical and organisational evolution of anti-fascist groups and explores their often complicated relationships with the mainstream and radical left, as well as assessing their effectiveness in combating the extreme right.
Author : Celia Hughes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 0719098300
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Young lives on the Left written by Celia Hughes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in depth the stories of approximately twenty individuals to offer a unique perspective of what it meant to be young and on the Left in the post-war landscape. The book will be essential reading for researchers of twentieth-century British social, cultural and political history. However, it will be of interest to a general readership interested in the social protest movements of the long 1960s.
