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Author Hughes, Celia, author.

Title Young lives on the left : sixties activism and the liberation of the self / Celia Hughes
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages)
Contents 1. Post-war childhood and adolescence -- 2. Youth subcultures -- 3. The student movement and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign -- 4. New Left politics and Women's Liberation -- 5. Adulthood and activism in the 1970s -- 6. Trotskyism and the revolutionary self
Summary 'Young Lives on the Left' is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, it follows approximately 20 individuals, tracing the experience of activist self-making from child to adulthood in depth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-306) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Nineteen sixties.
Social movements -- England -- History -- 20th century
Radicalism -- England -- History -- 20th century
Right and left (Political science)
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Nineteen sixties
Radicalism
Right and left (Political science)
Social movements
Aktivismus
Linksradikalismus
Protestbewegung
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824
Subject England
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781781708989
1781708983
9780719098314
0719098319