The histories of Raphael Samuel a portrait of a people's historian
In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934--1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first British New Left, 1960s radicalism to the 1980s history wa...
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| Language: | English |
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Acton, A.C.T.
ANU Press
2017, 2017©2017
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| Series: | ANU lives series in biography
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The ingrained activist: communism as a way of life, the communist party historian's group and Oxford student politics
- Reinventing the organiser: anti-authoritarianism, activist politics and the first New Left
- The workshop historian: Ruskin College and the early years of the History Workshop
- The secret life of Headington Quarry: people's history in the field
- The socialist historian?
- Stranger memories of who we really are: history, the nation and the historian
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265)