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...

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.