The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer’s interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the necessity of class analysis and as a sensitive critic of historical practice.
The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years.
The volume offers a coherent set of chapters to support undergraduates, postgraduates and others interested in the historical processes that have shaped the discipline of history.
Neil Davidson provided a broad-based survey regarding bourgeois revolutions, encompassing the revolutionary ideas that ... Christopher Hill's Experience of Defeat (1984) examined the defeated hopes and ideological turmoil of the radical ...
They illuminate the political, social and personal assumptions which have governed and sustained historical practice and theory. The book also brings into focus the key historiographic trends since World War Two.
This allows the book to bring to light a highly original experience in the development of historiography, based on the long Italian tradition of reflection on historical knowledge. “This book revisits the relations between history and ...
Anderson, Perry, The Mythsof Edward Thompson—Socialism and Pseudo Empiricism', NewLeft Review35, Jan./Feb.1966. Anderson, Perry, 'Problems ofSocialist ... Gane, Michael, 'Althusser in English', Theoretical Practice 1, Jan. 1971.
A follow-up to the bestselling The Pursuit of History,this Reader brings together the reflections of a number of major historians on the nature and purpose of their craft. They illuminate...
This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate. Adopted as a set book by the Open University.
Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study
This volume discusses the victories and failures of the 100-year trajectory of socialism. Since the Russian Revolution of October 1917, socialism has been practiced for nearly a hundred years in countries at various stages of development.