Marxism and History

TRAMA

This textbook examines Marxism’s enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist historians and thinkers, and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students’ own work. This is a concise, thorough overview of an important area of historiography. The second edition incorporates significant new developments in research, including Marxist contributions to the emergence of global, maritime and transnational history; the discovery of Marx’s ecologism and the historical critique of fossil capitalism as a source of environmental disaster; a reassessment of gender oppression through social reproduction theory; and the contribution of Marxism to debates on race, Eurocentrism and whiteness. 

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction.- 2. Marxist History’s Wide Panorama.- 3. Marx and Engels’s Conception of History.- 4. The Historical Writings of Marx and Engels.- 5. The Second Generation and the Philosophy and Writing of History.- 6. ‘Rescuing the Poor Stockinger’: History from Below.- 7. Marxism, Structuralism, Humanism.- 8. Marxism and Postmodernism.- 9. Conclusion.

AUTORE

Matt Perry is Reader in Labour History at Newcastle University, UK. Amongst his publications in social and labour history are the biography Red Ellen Wilkinson: Her Ideas, Movements and World (2014) and a study of the mutinies of 1919: Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919 (2019).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030695101
• Collana: Theory and History
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: IX, 195 p. 1 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 195
• Pagine Romane: ix