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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 - Unsparing Honesty (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,386
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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 - Unsparing Honesty (Hardcover): Walter A. Jackson

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 - Unsparing Honesty (Hardcover)

Walter A. Jackson; Series edited by Grey Osterud

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society. Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called "unsparing honesty," and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything against the values they shared.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Release date: May 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Walter A. Jackson
Series editors: Grey Osterud
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-49707-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-367-49707-7
Barcode: 9780367497071

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