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Informationen zum Autor Jim Smyth is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a specialist in British and Irish history and his publications include The Making of the United Kingdom 1660-1800: State, Religion and Identity in Britain and Ireland and The Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century. Klappentext Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that! despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity! British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same. Vorwort Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that, despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity, British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same. Zusammenfassung Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that, despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity, British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionCulture and Society in Britain: Historians and other Intellectuals in the 1950sLewis Namier and the HistoriansThe Structure of Consensus at the Accession of Elizabeth IIConsensus Challenged: Culture and Politics in the mid-1950sThe Practice of History at Mid-Century‘Out of Apathy’?The New LeftPostscript
