Harold Isaacs
Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986) was a historian and one-time Trotskyist historian of the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27. Isaacs went to China in 1930 and became involved with left wing politics in Shanghai. After World War II, he was a member of the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Selected articles and works
- Five years of Kuomintang reaction (editor) (1932)
- The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (1938)
- New cycle in Asia : selected documents in major international development in the Far East, 1943-1947 (editor) (1947)
- Two-thirds of the world : problems of a new approach to the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (1950)
- Africa : new crisis in the making (1952)
- Scratches on our minds : American images of China and India (1958)
- Emergent Americans; a report on "Crossroads Africa."(1961)
- The new world of Negro Americans (1964)
- India's ex-Untouchables (1965)
- American Jews in Israel (1967)
- No peace for Asia (1967)
- Images of Asia : American views of China and India (1972)
- Straw sandals; Chinese short stories, 1918-1933 (editor)(1974)
- Idols of the tribe : group identity and political change (1975)
- Power and identity : tribalism in world politics (1979)
- Re-encounters in China : notes of a journey in a time capsule (1985)
References
- Rotter, Andrew Jon, In Retrospect: Harold R. Isaacs's Scratches on Our Minds Reviews in American History - Volume 24, Number 1, March 1996, pp. 177-188 [2]
Notes
- ^ Obituary, New York Times, July 7, 1986
- ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v024/24.1rotter.html
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1986 |
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