The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis - Softcover

Kaye, Harvey J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312126689 ISBN 13: 9780312126681

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1995

Synopsis

This text provides a study of 20th–century Marxism, one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. The book includes: Maurice Dobb and the debate on the transition to capitalism; feudalism and the English peasantry; the English Revolution; workers, peasants and world history; and the making of the English working class. It also compares the British Marxist perspective on history with other approaches, such as that of the French Annales school, and concludes with a discussion of the contribution of the British Marxist historians to the formation of a democratic historical consciousness.

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Review:

'Harvey Kaye's The British Marxist Historians... is a lasting contribution to the history of twentieth-century Marxism, to a corner of British cultural history, and to the study of how history and historians work' - from the foreword by Eric Hobsbawn

About the Author:

HARVEY J. KAYE is Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the author of The Powers of the Past, The Education of Desire (Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize winner, 1993) and coeditor of The American Radical.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312126689
• ISBN 13: 9780312126681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316