TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Scott TI - Crisis of theory: EP Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics SN - 0719084350 U1 - 320.092 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Thompson, E. P. KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Part One; from the Thirties to the Cold War --; 1; The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism, and the thirties --; Part Two; New Left, Old Problems --; 2; Yesterday the struggle: 'Outside the Whale' and the fight for the thirties --; 3; A peculiar classic --; 4; Getting out of the tent --; Part Three; Crisis and Creativity --; 5; The road to St Paul's --; 6; The eagle and the bustard: EP Thompson and Louis Althusser --; 7; 'Mountainous inconsistency': EP Thompson, Marx, and 'The Poverty of Theory' --; 8; 'Don't tread on Me': the other side of Thompson's critique --; 9; Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson --; Part Four; Making Peace --; 10; After St Paul's: EP Thompson's late work --; Conclusion: The Last Muggletonian Marxist: The Paradoxical Triumph of EP Thompson ER -