Marxism and Historical Practice (2 Vols)
Marxism and Historical Practice (2 Vols)
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Author(s): Palmer, Bryan D.
ISBN No.: 9789004301832
Pages: 918
Year: 201509
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 489.90
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VOLUME I: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class StruggleAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: CLASS STRUGGLE BEFORE THE CONSOLIDATION OF CLASS1. Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America2. Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830sPART II: WORKERS' CULTURES, STRUGGLES, AND MOBILISATIONS IN THE AGE OF CAPITALIST CONSOLIDATION, 1860-19203. In Street and Field and Hall: The Culture of Hamilton Workingmen, 1860-19144. The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-19005. Class, Conception and Conict: The Thrust for Efficiency, Managerial Views of Labour, and the Working Class Rebellion, 1903-22PART III: CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE POST-WAR SETTLEMENT6. Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle7. British Columbia's Solidarity: Reformism and the Fight Against the RightPART IV: REMAPPING THE LANDSCAPE OF CLASS FORMATION: COMPARISONS AND CONJUNCTURES IN LABOUR HISTORY'S TELESCOPED LONGUE DURÉE 8.


Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800-19009. 'Cracking the Stone': The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto's Dispossessed, 1830-1930 10. What's Law Got to Do with It? Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist AuthorityReferencesIndexVOLUME II: Interventions and AppreciationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS 1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited 2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View 3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview PART II: REEL HISTORY: COMMENT ON THE CINEMATIC 4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness 5. The Hands that Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York 6.


Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez PART III: HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT 7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement 9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism PART IV: APPRECIATIONS 10. Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth 11. Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted 12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890-1974 13. Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness' References Index.



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