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100 1 $aHamilton, Scott.
245 14 $aThe crisis of theory :$bE.P. Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics /$cScott Hamilton.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester Univ. Press,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 293 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 278-290) and index.
505 0 $aThe making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s -- Yesterday the struggle: 'outside the whale' and the fight for the 1930s -- A peculiar classic -- Getting out of the tent -- The road to St Paul's -- The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser -- 'Mountainous inconsistency': EP Thompson, Marx and 'the poverty of theory' -- 'Don't tread on me': the other side of Thompson's critique -- Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson -- After St Paul's: EP Thompson's late work -- Conclusion: The last Muggletonian Marxist: EP Thompson's paradoxical triumph.
520 $a"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 Drawing on extrodinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed histories to his voluminous political writings to his littel-noticed poetry,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 philosophy of history" --P [4] of jacket
505 0 $aFrom the 1930s to the Cold War -- New Left, old problems -- Crisis and creavitity -- Making peace.
600 10 $aThompson, E. P.$q(Edward Palmer),$d1924-1993.
650 0 $aRight and left (Political science)$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aSocialism$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government.
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