Protest and survival : the historical experience : essays for E.P. Thompson

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Protest and survival : the historical experience : essays for E.P. Thompson

edited by John Rule and Robert Malcolmson

Merlin Press , New Press, c1993

  • : uk
  • : us

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-421)

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Volume

: uk ISBN 9780850364354

Description

Few historians in this century have had as lasting and marked an impact as E. P. Thompson. His rewriting of English history, beginning with The Making of the English Working Class, has affected a whole generation of historians. At the same time, his role as a political activist was second only to Bertrand Russells, whose mantle he inherited as the leader of the European nuclear disarmament movement. With essays by an array of important English and American historians and a comprehensive bibliography, this new volume, published shortly after Thompsons death, examines his work in a variety of fields, evaluating his extraordinary influence and paying homage to his remarkable career.
Volume

: us ISBN 9781565841147

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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