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Author Hobbs, Sandy, author

Title Out of the burning house : political socialization in the age of affluence / Sandy Hobbs and Willie Thompson
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) : illustrations
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
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 ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hobbs, Sandy
Thompson, Willie
SUBJECT Hobbs, Sandy fast
Thompson, Willie fast
Subject Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Socialism -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Memoirs.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Political ideologies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Social conditions
Socialism
Socialists
SUBJECT Aberdeen (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056921
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945
Subject Great Britain
Scotland -- Aberdeen
Genre/Form Biographies
e-book [online only]
Form Electronic book
Author Thompson, Willie
LC no. 2011459059
ISBN 9781443828581
1443828580
9781443830478
144383047X
1283142945
9781283142946
9786613142948
6613142948