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The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sophie Scott-BrownPublish date:10/17/2025Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198915652ISBN-10:198915659UPC:9780198915652Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCQK4PRS0E

The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain

The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire, welfare, and affluence- compelled a rapid rethinking of what it meant to 'be political' along with a series of experiments in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198915652ISBN-10:198915659UPC:9780198915652Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCQK4PRS0E
Sophie Scott-Brown, Fellow of the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews

Sophie Scott-Brown is currently affiliated to the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. Prior to this, she taught political philosophy at the University of East Anglia and was a Programme Director for the Europaeum, a network of nineteen European universities run as an...
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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