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Автор: Irving, Terry
Название: Fatal lure of politics
ISBN: 9781925835748
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Австралазии и Тихоокеании

Археология

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 192583574X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 424
Вес: 0.67 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Archaeology,Australasian & Pacific history,Biography: historical, political & military,Politics & government
Подзаголовок: The life and thought of vere gordon childe
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the worlds first study of parliamentary socialism. At the end of the First World War he decided to pursue a life of scholarship to escape the fatal lure of politics and Australian labours politicalism, his term for its misguided emphasis on parliamentary representation. In Britain, with the publication of The Dawn of European Civilisation (1925) he began a career that would establish him as preeminent in his field and one of the most distinguished scholars of the mid-twentieth century. At the same time, his aim was to democratise archaeology, to involve people in its practice and to reveal to them What Happened in History (1942), the title of his most popular book. It sold 300,00 copies in its first 15 years. Politics continued to lure him, and for forty years the security services of Britain and Australia continued to spy on him. He supported Russias grand and hopeful experiment and opposed the rise of fascism. His Australian background reinforced his hatred of colonialism and imperialism. Politics was also implicated in his death. There is a direct line between Childes early radicalism and his final - and fatal - political act in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. This is a book about the central place of socialist politics in his life, and his contribution to the theory of history that this politics entailed.

Fatal lure of politics, Irving, Terry