Hard Road to Renewal - Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left

A timely reissue of a classic collection from the 1980s by one of Britain most radical cultural commentators

About the author

Stuart Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated at Oxford University. A pioneering cultural theorist, campaigner, and founding editor of the New Left Review, Hall was one of the most influential and adventurous thinkers of the last half century. He was Director of the University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies from 1972, and from 1979 was Professor of Sociology at the Open University. His published work includes The Popular Arts (1964), the co-authored volume Policing the Crisis (1978), The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (1988), and his posthumous memoir Familiar Stranger (2017).

Summary

A timely reissue of a classic collection from the 1980s by one of Britain most radical cultural commentators

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Hall
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781839761362
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-136-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary essays, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political ideologies and movements, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies