The Crisis of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics

By Scott Hamilton

Book Overview

This book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompson's ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719089093
• ISBN13: 9780719089091
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"