Protest and survival : essays for E.P. Thompson

Author(s)

• Rule, John
• Malcolmson, Robert W.
• Thompson, Edward P.

Bibliographic Information

Protest and survival : essays for E.P. Thompson

edited by John Rule and Robert Malcolmson

New Press, c1993

Note

Bibliography: p. [417]-421

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The historian Edward P. Thompson has not only rewritten English history, but he has also produced works on English literature and the English Romantics. He is also a well-known political activist. This volume examines his work in all these fields, evaluating his influence along the way.

Table of Contents

• Edward Thompson as a teacher
• an 18th century English peasantry?
• the laws of God and the laws of man - Lord George Gordon and the penalty of death
• trade unions, the government, and the French Revolution, 1788-1802
• William Blake and the Great Eastcheap orthodoxy
• a little jubilee? the literacy of Robert Wedderburn
• the fabrication of deviance - "dangerous classes" and "criminal classes" in Victorian England
• our party is the people - Edward Carpenter and radicalism in Sheffield
• the forward march of labour started - building a politicized class culture in West Ham, 1888-1900
• feminist, socialist, anti-war agitator - Sylvia Pankhurst and the Great War
• on the waterfront - black, Italian, and Irish longshoremen in the New York Harbour strike of 1919
• fear and hope in the nuclear age
• E.P. Thompson - a select bibliography.

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Details

• NCID: BA21578046
• ISBN:
  • 156584114X
• LCCN: 93015823
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 423 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD4841
  • DC20 : 305.5/62
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Working class -- History
  • LCSH : Labor movement -- History
  • LCSH : Social classes -- History
  • LCSH : Thompson, E.P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-