Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History - Softcover

McKay, Ian

 
9781896357973: Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History

Synopsis

In this brilliant and thoroughly engaging work Ian McKay sets out to revamp the history of Canadian socialism. Drawing on models of left politics in Marx and Gramsci, he outlines a fresh agenda for exploration of the Canadian left.

In rejecting the usual paths of sectarian or sentimental histories, McKay draws on contemporary cultural theory to argue for an inventive strategy of “reconnaissance.” This important, groundbreaking work combines the highest standards of scholarship, and a broad knowledge of current debates in the field. Rebels, Reds, Radicals is the introduction to McKay’s definitive multi-volume work on the history of Canadian socialism (volume one, Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 is now available).

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About the Author

Ian McKay teaches at Queen?’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His other books are Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920, and The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia.

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