Matt Perry

Marxism and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist historians and thinkers, and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work. This is a concise, thorough overview of an important area of historiography. The second edition incorporates significant new developments in research, including Marxist contributions to the emergence of global, maritime and transnational history; the discovery of Marx's ecologism and the historical critique of fossil capitalism as a source of environmental disaster; a reassessment of gender oppression through social reproduction theory; and the contribution of Marxism to debates on race, Eurocentrism and whiteness.

Produktdetails

• Theory and History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-69510-1
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9783030695101
• ISBN-10: 3030695107
• Artikelnr.: 60930078

Autorenporträt

Matt Perry is Reader in Labour History at Newcastle University, UK. Amongst his publications in social and labour history are the biography Red Ellen Wilkinson: Her Ideas, Movements and World (2014) and a study of the mutinies of 1919: Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919 (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Marxist History's Wide Panorama.- 3. Marx and Engels's Conception of History.- 4. The Historical Writings of Marx and Engels.- 5. The Second Generation and the Philosophy and Writing of History.- 6. 'Rescuing the Poor Stockinger': History from Below.- 7. Marxism, Structuralism, Humanism.- 8. Marxism and Postmodernism.- 9. Conclusion.