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1 online resource (376 pages). |
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text file |
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Historical Materialism Book Series
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Historical materialism book series.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1. Theoretical and Historiographic Interventions; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited; Chapter 2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View; Chapter 3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview; Part 2. Reel History: Comment on the Cinematic; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness. |
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Chapter 5. The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New YorkChapter 6. Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez; Part 3. Historiography: The Revolutionary Left; Introduction to Part 3; Chapter 7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism; Chapter 8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement; Chapter 9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism; Part 4. Appreciations. |
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Introduction to Part 4Chapter 10. Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth; Chapter 11. Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted; Chapter 12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890-1974; Chapter 13. Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness'; References; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- Canada -- History.
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Working class. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
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Labor -- Canada -- History.
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Labor. |
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Labor movement -- Canada -- History.
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Labor movement. |
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Social conflict -- Canada -- History.
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Social conflict. |
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Social conflict -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Communism -- Canada -- History.
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Communism. |
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Communism -- United States -- History.
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Marxian historiography.
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Marxian historiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Palmer, Bryan D. Marxism and Historical Practice : Interventions and Appreciations. Volume II. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004297227 |
| ISBN |
9789004301849 |
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9004301844 |
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9789004297227 (vol. 2 ; hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004301849 |
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