Marxism and Historical Practice : : Interventions and Appreciations. Volume II.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Author: Palmer, Bryan D.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 99.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations , are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Palmer’s interests as a radical historian. Cultural forms and representational productions are analysed; political readings of historiography and pioneering historical practice provided. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, the conflicted legacies of American Trotskyism, and the representation of class politics in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York are covered.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited -- Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View -- Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness -- The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York -- Sugar Man’s Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism -- Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers’ Movement -- The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Hobsbawm’s History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth -- Hobsbawm’s Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted -- James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890–1974 -- Paradox and the Thompson ‘School of Awkwardness’ -- References -- Index.