Making history : writings on history and culture

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Making history : writings on history and culture

E.P. Thompson

New Press , Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN 9781565842168

Description

Bringing together writings and lectures delivered by the late E.P. Thompson over a number of years, this collection covers the key debates in history and cultural theory that occupied him throughout his career. These include his influential and sympathetic assessments of historians Raymond Williams and Herman Gutman; as well as his judgements of classic English writers such as William Morris and Mary Wollstonecraft. Also included are Thompson's perceptive and witty contributions to current issues of debate, such as the role of poetry as a poltical act, and the historical method and imagination. The book concludes with "Agenda for Radical History", his lecture on the future of history and the task of historians in years to come.

Table of Contents

  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Eleanor Marx
  • homage to Tom Maguire
  • William Morris
  • Christopher Caudwell
  • in defence of the jury
  • peterloo
  • sold like sheep for #1
  • history and anthropology
  • left review
  • Edgell Rickword
  • country and city
  • George Sturt
  • the grid of inheritance
  • happy families
  • Herbert Gutman
  • which Briton?
  • commitment and poetry
  • powers and names
  • agenda for a radical history.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781565842175

Description

Bringing together E.P. Thompson's writings and lectures delivered over a number of years, Making History covers the key debates in history and cultural theory that occupied Thompson throughout his career. Making History includes such landmark writings as Thompson's influential and sympathetic assessments of the historians Raymond Williams and Herbert Gutman, as well as his judgments of the lasting value of classic English writers such as William Morris and Mary Wollstonecraft. Also included are Thompson's perceptive and always witty contributions to current issues of debate, such as the role of poetry as a political act and the historical method and imagination. The book concludes with "Agenda for Radical History," Thompson's inspiring and oft-cited lecture on the future of history and the task of historians in years to come, a fitting conclusion to the book and to Thompson's own exemplary career.

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