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Out of the burning house : political socialization in the age of affluence / Sandy Hobbs and Willie Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobbs, Sandy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Socialists.
- Aberdeen (Scotland)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Aberdeen (Scotland).
- Hobbs, Sandy.
- Thompson, Willie.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This unique collaboration, between a Marxist historian and behaviourist psychologist, is a vivid picture of the cultural milieu they experienced at Aberdeen University, and of social forces often overlooked in histories of the time: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women's Liberation Movement. As students together in the MacMillan Era, they shared an attachment to socialist, secular and scientific values. Like Brecht, they saw those unwilling to commit to revolutionar...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; TIMELINE; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14294-5
- 9786613142948
- 1-4438-3047-X
- OCLC:
- 816845462
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