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Author:   Shlomo Sand ,  Robin Mackay
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781509558254

ISBN 10:   150955825
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Equality as the Great Modern Myth      1.   From the Levellers to the Enigma of Rousseau 2.   The Revolution, the Terror and the Conspiracy of Equals 3.   Utopia as Refuge, from Politics to Chartism 4.   Springtime of the Peoples: Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century 5.   Proudhon, Bakunin and Anarchism as Freedom 6.   Marx, Engels and ‘Scientific’ Socialism 7.   The Fourth Estate, Between Liberalism and Democracy 8.   Confronting Colonialism: The White Socialist’s Burden 9.   Nation and Internationalism: Dying for Your Country 10.  Lenin and the State: Next to the Spinning Wheel and the Bronze Axe 11.  Blackshirts and Brownshirts: Right or Left? 12.  Mao and Chinese Communism: ‘A Hundred Flowers’? 13.  The Socialist Imaginary in Postcolonial Countries 14.  The Welfare State, a Working-Class Triumph? 15.  Latin America and Opposition to the ‘Big Stick’ 16.  From the Civil Rights Movement to the May ’67 Uprising 17.  The Struggle for Gender Equality: The Feminine Mystique 18.  The Rust-Belt Proletariat and the Return of Populism 19.  Consumption and Ecology: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie A Melancholy Conclusion: Inequality and the Pandemic

Reviews

‘This absorbing and thought-provoking book is the richest and most varied account available of the fate of the idea of equality.  It will be of great value to anyone interested in one of the core political ideas of the modern world and in the political movements – from the Levellers to the contemporary Left – that have championed it.’ Colin Crouch, University of Warwick

‘This absorbing and thought-provoking book is the richest and most varied account available of the fate of the idea of equality.  It will be of great value to anyone interested in one of the core political ideas of the modern world and in the political movements – from the Levellers to the contemporary Left – that have championed it.’ Colin Crouch, University of Warwick ‘A fascinating and very thought-provoking book’ Nick Cohen

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Shlomo Sand is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tel Aviv.

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