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The fatal lure of politics : the life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe / Terry Irving.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irving, T. H. (Terence H.), author.
- Series:
- Biography (Monash University Publishing)
- Biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeologists--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 418 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- A new and radically different biography of the Australian-bornarchaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his earlylife he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How LabourGoverns.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Front Matter
- Praise for The Fatal Lure of Politics
- About this Book
- Copyright and Imprint Information
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Introduction: A Death in the Cold War
- Part 1. Growing up into Revolution: Sydney and Oxford 1892-1917
- Chapter 1 Living in a Divided City
- Chapter 2 Students and Workers
- Chapter 3 Socialists and Cooperators
- Chapter 4 A Cold Northern Superculture
- Chapter 5 More Outspoken than Any Other
- Part 2. Labour Intellectual: Australia 1917-1921
- Chapter 6 No Compromise
- Chapter 7 'A certain vacillation'
- Chapter 8 'Yours for the revolution'
- Chapter 9 Labour's Mediating Intellectuals
- Chapter 10 The World of Labour
- Chapter 11 A State within the State
- Chapter 12 The Intelligence Department
- Chapter 13 The Premier's Minder
- Part 3. An Unknown Member of the Proletariat: London 1921-1926
- Chapter 14 The Dismissal
- Chapter 15 A Pauper Colonial
- Chapter 16 How Labour Governs and The Dawn
- Chapter 17 'A movement that will have to go further'
- Part 4. What Happens in History: 1927-1957
- Chapter 18 Science as Communism
- Chapter 19 A Grand and Hopeful Experiment
- Chapter 20 An Absolutely Sincere Approach to the Party
- Chapter 21 1956
- Chapter 22 A Sentimental Excursion
- Chapter 23 'Australia today is far from a socialist society'
- Coda: Childe's Revolutions and the Fatal Lure
- End Matter
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-925835-75-8
- OCLC:
- 1467877034
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