The crisis of theory : EP Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics /

The crisis of theory : EP Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics /

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Author / Creator:Hamilton, Scott.
Imprint:Manchester ; New York : Manchester Univ. Press, 2011.
Description:viii, 293 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Thompson, E. P. -- (Edward Palmer), -- 1924-1993.
Thompson, E. P. -- (Edward Palmer), -- 1924-1993.
Right and left (Political science) -- Great Britain.
Socialism -- Great Britain.
New Left.
Politics and government.
Socialism.
Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Great Britain.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8456798
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ISBN:0719084350
9780719084355
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-290) and index.
Summary:"This book tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of EP Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extrodinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his littel-noticed poetry, was inspired by the same passionate and idiosyncratic vision of the world. In a narrative that moves from the battlefields of Spian and Italy to the coal towns of Yorkshire to the bloody chaos of Emergency India, Hamilton present Thompson as a man determined to fin an alternative, in though and in actio, to the ideolofies of Stalinism and right-wing 'Natopolotanism' that together dominated the postwar world...This book will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in left-wing politics and theory, British societym twentith-century history, modernist poetry and the philosphy of history" --P [4] of jacket

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