Rosalind Eyben

John Horner and the Communist Party

Uncomfortable Encounters With Truth

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Produktbeschreibung

John Horner and the Communist Party is a biography of a leading trade unionist and activist who became disillusioned with the Communist Party.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781032671345
• ISBN-10: 1032671343
• Artikelnr.: 69993140

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Eyben is a historian, social anthropologist, and Emeritus Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Following a career in international development policy and practice that included working in many parts of Africa and later in India and Latin America, she became Chief Social Development Advisor at the UK Government's Department for International Development, a role that she left to research and teach about power and relations in the international aid system. Among her previous books are International Aid and the Making of a Better World (2014) and, with Laura Turquet, Feminists in Development Organizations: Change from the Margins (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kevin Morgan Prologue 1. 'Walthamstow Wide Awake!' 2. A Sense
of Class 3. At Sea 4. The Lady of Shalott 5. No More War 6. 'The Coming
Struggle for Power' 7. 'Marx for You and God for Me' 8. Hampstead 9. 'Pale
Pink' and 'Deeper Red' 10. Close to Death, August-September 1939 11.
'Imagination and Decision' 1939-40 12. 'Bombed But Far From Beaten' 13.
'Known to Keep Strange Company' 1941-43 14. The Campaign for a Second Front
15. 'Go to it, Housewives!' 16. 'Dare to Make it Known' 17. 'Sliding into
the Deep Freeze' 18. 'The World Shall Yet Live in Peace' 19. The Children's
Perspective 20. 'Both Betrayed and Betrayer' 21. Exit Epilogue:
Uncomfortable Encounters with Truth