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“mike tyldesley”

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  • Andrea Caffi

    The New York Essays

    by Andrea Caffi, Alberto Castelli ...
    Andrea Caffi: The New York Essays gathers, for the first time in one volume, the remarkable essays that the Russian-born Italian socialist Andrea Caffi (1887-1955) published in New York between 1945 and 1948. Written in the shadow of fascism, world war, and the emerging Cold War, these essays offer a powerful and original critique of violence, mass politics, nationalism, and totalitarianism ... Read more

    $6.00 USD

  • Rolf Gardiner: Folk, Nature and Culture in Interwar Britain

    by Mike Tyldesley ...
    Folk dancer, forester, poet and visionary, Rolf Gardiner (1902-71) is both a compelling and troubling figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain. While he is celebrated as a pioneer of organic farming and co-founder of the Soil Association, Gardiner's organicist outlook was not confined to agriculture alone. Convinced that a healthy culture and society could only flourish when it was ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    English Rebel

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  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    by Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Read more

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  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

    by Tom Garvin ...
    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

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  • The Lawn Road Flats

    Spies, Writers and Artists

    by David Burke ...
    The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete in domestic architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who took up residence there as for the application of revolutionary building techniques.There were 32 ... Read more

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  • Fascist Scotland

    Caledonia and the Far Right

    by Gavin Bowd ...
    On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, entered Scottish airspace in an ill-fated attempt to discuss peace with the Duke of Hamilton. For the Nazis, Hess was the victim of 'tragic hallucinations'. But how far had Hess really flown from reality?Although Fascism in Britain is normally associated with England, and especially the East End of London, and even then dismissed as a ... Read more

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  • Poulenc

    A Biography

    by Roger Nichols ...
    An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music"An assured overview of Poulenc’s life and work."—Alex Ross, New Yorker“Essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical culture of Poulenc’s time. This is the biography the composer deserves.”—Christopher Dingle, BBC Music Magazine, ... Read more

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  • The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

    A Reassessment

    by Stephen Ingle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK. ... Read more

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  • Sewing Freedom

    Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century-a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip ... Read more

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  • Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow

    Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward

    by David Goodway ...
    From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

    Edited by John Rodden ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing ... Read more

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