The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A portrait of a people's historian

by Sophie Scott-Brown

In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934-1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first British New Left, 1960s radicalism to the 1980s history wars. As the catalyst behind the History Workshop movement, Samuel championed the democratisation of history-making and practised an eclectic form of people's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760460362
• ISBN13: 9781760460365
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"