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New Left, New Right and Beyond

Taking the Sixties Seriously

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Editors:
  1. Geoff Andrews

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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  2. Richard Cockett

    1. Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

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  3. Alan Hooper

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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  4. Michael Williams

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Alan Hooper, Michael Williams
    Pages 1-6

  3. A Politics Adequate to the Age: the New Left and the Long Sixties

    • Alan Hooper
    Pages 7-25

  4. Hey Jimmy! The Legacy of Gramsci in British Cultural Politics

    • Tom Steele
    Pages 26-41

  5. Stars and Moons: Desire and the Limits of Marketisation

    • Wendy Wheeler
    Pages 42-50

  6. We Didn’t Know It Would Be So Hard: the Short, Sad, Instructive History of the US New Left

    • Marvin Gettleman
    Pages 51-65

  7. The Three New Lefts and their Legacies

    • Geoff Andrews
    Pages 66-84

  8. The New Right and the 1960s: the Dialectics of Liberation

    • Richard Cockett
    Pages 85-105

  9. The New Right, New Labour and the Problem of Social Cohesion

    • Peter Saunders
    Pages 106-124

  10. 1968’s Unfinished Business — Cultural Equality and the Renewal of the Left

    • Hilary Wainwright
    Pages 125-143

  11. The Long Sixties in the Short Twentieth Century

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 144-167

  12. The Rise and Fall of an Anti-Racism: from Political Blackness to Ethnic Pluralism

    • Tariq Modood
    Pages 168-181

  13. From Berkeley to Blair: a Dialogue of the Deaf?

    • Anne Showstack Sassoon
    Pages 182-193

  14. Crafting a New Social Settlement

    • Paul Hirst
    Pages 194-200

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 201-207
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About this book

The 1960s represented a defining turning-point in the politics and cultures of western societies. But what of the lasting political and cultural legacies of the sixties? In this book a range of leading thinkers show how the sixties continue to influence contemporary debates on globalization and democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Geoff Andrews, Alan Hooper, Michael Williams

  • Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

    Richard Cockett

About the editors

GEOFF ANDREWS is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hertfordshire; Associate Lecturer, The Open University; Editor Citizenship (Lawrence and Wishart 1991); and co-editor Opening the Books: essays on the social and cultural history of British Communism (Pluto Press 1995).

RICHARD COCKETT is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is author of Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83.

ALAN HOOPER is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hertfordshire, and author of essays on modern British history and contemporary Brazilian politics.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS lectures in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Hertfordshire and elsewhere. Before then he spent twenty years as a civil servant in what is now the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. He has published papers on privatisation and the role of management consultants in shaping public policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Left, New Right and Beyond

  • Book Subtitle: Taking the Sixties Seriously

  • Editors: Geoff Andrews, Richard Cockett, Alan Hooper, Michael Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981726

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-74147-4Published: 19 May 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40995-2Published: 19 May 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98172-6Published: 19 May 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: British Politics, Cultural Studies, Political Science

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