Description: Further DetailsTitle: Equality and the British LeftCondition: NewSubtitle: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900–64ISBN-10: 0719073073EAN: 9780719073076ISBN: 9780719073076Publisher: Manchester University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/30/2011Description: The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to ‘equality’? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democracy in the 1950s. Along the way, it examines and reassesses the egalitarian political thought of many significant figures in the history of the British Left, including L. T. Hobhouse, R. H. Tawney and Anthony Crosland. Newly available in paperback for the first time, this book demonstrates that the British Left has historically been distinguished from its ideological competitors on the Centre and the Right by a commitment to a demanding form of economic egalitarianism. It shows that this egalitarianism has come to be neglected or caricatured by politicians and scholars alike, and is more surprising and sophisticated than is often imagined. Equality and the British Left offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought that will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory, and to anyone interested in contemporary debates about progressive politics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Ben JacksonGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Critical Labour Movement StudiesItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 386gTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Equality and the British Left
Title: Equality and the British Left
Subtitle: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900–64
ISBN-10: 0719073073
EAN: 9780719073076
ISBN: 9780719073076
Release Date: 11/30/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Equality and the British Left : a Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Process / Political Parties, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ben Jackson
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies
Format: Trade Paperback
