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Angus Calder


Born
February 05, 1942

Died
June 05, 2008

Genre
History, Literature, Scottish Culture


Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.

He was a man of the Left, and in his influential book on the home front in the Second World War, The People's War (1969), he complained that the postwar reforms of the Labour government, such as universal health care and nationalization of some industries, were an inadequate reward for wartime sacrifices, and a cynical betrayal of the people's hope for a more just postwar society.

Other books include Revolutionary Empire (1981), The Myth of the Blitz (1991) and Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic (1994). ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,641 ratings · 196 reviews · 60 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The People's War: Britain, ...
4.21 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1969 — 14 editions
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The Myth of the Blitz
3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Gods, Mongrels, and Demons:...
3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Revolutionary Empire: The R...
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Speak For Yourself: A Mass ...
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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The Souls of the Dead are T...
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Revolving Culture: Notes fr...
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994
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T.S. Eliot
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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Russia Discovered: Nineteen...
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Scotlands of the Mind
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