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The Fatal Lure of Politics : the Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irving, Terry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Melbourne : Monash University Publishing, 2020.
Colección:Biography Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • About This Book
  • Copyright and Imprint Information
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • 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
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author