Marxist Historiographies

Author : Q. Edward Wang,Georg G. Iggers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
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Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317413844

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Marxist Historiographies by Q. Edward Wang,Georg G. Iggers Pdf

Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed. Edited by two highly respected authors in the field, this book deals with the effect of Marxism on historical writings not only in parts of Europe, where it originated, but also in countries and regions in Africa, Asia, North and South America and the Middle East. Rather than presenting the chapters geographically, it is structured with respect to how Marxist influence was shown in the works of historians in a particular area. This title takes a dual approach to the subject; some chapters are national in scope, addressing the Marxist impact on historical practices within a country, whereas others deal with the varied expressions of Marxist historiography throughout a wider region. Taking a truly global perspective on this topic, Marxist Historiographies demonstrates clearly the breadth and depth of Marxism’s influence in historical writing throughout the world and is essential reading for all students of historiography.

Author : Paolo Favilli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030836054

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Marxism and Historiography by Paolo Favilli Pdf

Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that “no one is a Marxist anymore,” pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history. While what is called "Marxism" was supposedly hegemonic over Italian culture, and especially history writing, for decades in the postwar period, it then seems to have suddenly disappeared. This study questions such a vision of a monolithic and hegemonic Marxism. It starts from the most effective anecdote to all ideologising narratives—that is, research into the texts themselves. It sees the Marxist historiography of the post-1945 period as a "history in the making," in which references to Marxian theory were a fundamental factor driving historiographical innovation. This allows the book to bring to light a highly original experience in the development of historiography, based on the long Italian tradition of reflection on historical knowledge.

Author : Paul Blackledge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847791344

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Reflections on the Marxist theory of history by Paul Blackledge Pdf

A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘End of History’, anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply ‘another world is possible’. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as being the naive empiricism of traditional historians and the relativism of the postmodernists. He moves on to outline Marx and Engels analyses of concrete historical processes and their critiques of the alternative historiographic methodologies of their contemporaries. He then discusses neglected historical works produced by Marxists in the half-century or so after Marx and Engels’ deaths. Two central chapters survey recent Marxist debates on, first, the nature of modes of productions, including slave, feudal and tributary systems, and the revolutionary transitions between them; and, second, the methodological debate over the issue of structure and agency in the movement of history. Finally, he shows the political relevance of these debates through a concluding survey of competing Marxist attempts to periodise the present, postmodern, conjuncture. This book should be read by historians, students of cultural, social and political theory and anti-capitalist activists.

Author : Benjamin Zachariah,Lutz Raphael,Brigitta Bernet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677799

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What’s Left of Marxism by Benjamin Zachariah,Lutz Raphael,Brigitta Bernet Pdf

This series seeks to focus on the politics inherent in historical thinking, professional and non-professional, promoted by states, political organisations, 'nationalities' or interest groups, and to explore the links between political (re-)education, historiography and mobilisation or identity formation.

Author : Matt Perry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030695118

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Marxism and History by Matt Perry Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004689190

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Marxism and Medieval Studies by Anonim Pdf

This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in question. Its approach is to distinguish between pseudo-Marxism as an ideological tool on the one hand, and Marxism in the form of historical materialism as a way to interpret the medieval world on the other. Contributors are: Florin Curta, Piotr Guzowski, Adam Hudek, Tereza Johanidesová, Jitka Komendová, Jiří Macháček, Andrzej Marzec, Martin Nodl, Attila Pók, David Radek, Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski, Iurie Stamati, Rafał Stobiecki, Gábor Thoroczkay, Przemysław Wiszewski, Piotr Węcowski, Martin Wihoda, and Dušan Zupka.

Author : Georg G. Iggers
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106010630983

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Marxist Historiography by Georg G. Iggers Pdf

Even before the revolution in 1989, East German historians had moved away from purely Marxist conceptions of economic and social conflict and started to explore methods and approaches ranging from empirical, sociological and demographic analysis to the study of mentalities and popular culture akin to those pursued in the West, thus initiating an active dialogue between historians in East and West. This volume presents important contributions by some of the leading East German social historians in English.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0719056128

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Marxism and History by S. H. Rigby Pdf

Marx's theory of history is often regarded as the most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual legacy. His "historical materialism" has been the inspiration for some of the best historical writing in the works of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, E.P.Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Robert Brenner. S.H. Rigby establishes Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, discusses their use in his own and his followers' writings, and assesses the validity of his theories. He argues that Marx's social theories were profoundly contradictory and that Marxism has proved most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.

Author : Gregor McLennan
Publisher : New Left Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081468071

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Marxism and the Methodologies of History by Gregor McLennan Pdf

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520067576

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Revolution and History by Arif Dirlik Pdf

"A fascinating contribution to Marxist historiography and to the history of Marxist historiography. Dirlik's story of the reemergence of the modes of production debate in the early years of the Chinese revolution has much to tell us about that debate itself, and not least about its intimate relationship to political practice and revolutionary strategy."—Fredric Jameson, Duke University

Author : Bertel Nygaard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031096556

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History and the Formation of Marxism by Bertel Nygaard Pdf

This book redefines the relationship between Marxism and history. At its roots, Marxism was aimed at analyzing society in order to change it, reflecting on the past to create the ‘poetry of the future.’ No single event of the past was as important to early Marxists as the French Revolution of 1789. Studying the varying uses of the history of that past event among Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and prominent European Marxists before 1914 (Karl Kautsky, V.I. Lenin, and others), this book argues that we should take the historiography of concrete past events seriously. It was not only an auxiliary element of Marxism, but a core constitutive element in its formation. Thus, this book calls for transcending traditional approaches to Marxism as a fixed set of social theories combined with strategies for the present and future. Important to students of Marxism, the labor movement, and the French Revolution alike, this study contains refreshing perspectives on the interplay between past, present, and future and on the role of states, social classes, socio-economic determination, and political organization in history.

Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789048650

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The British Marxist Historians by Harvey J. Kaye Pdf

The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the debate on the transition to capitalism; Rodney Hilton on feudalism and the English peasantry; Christopher Hill on the English Revolution; Eric Hobsbawm on workers, peasants and world history; and E.P. Thompson on the making of the English working class. Kaye compares their perspective on history with other approaches, such as that of the French Annales school, and concludes with a discussion of the British Marxist historians’ contribution to the formation of a democratic historical consciousness. The British Marxist Historians is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the intellectual history of the late twentieth century.

Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004301849

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Marxism and Historical Practice (Vol. II) by Bryan D. Palmer Pdf

The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer’s interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the necessity of class analysis and as a sensitive critic of historical practice.

Author : Helmut Fleischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000149987

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Marxism and History by Helmut Fleischer Pdf

Author : George C. Comninel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0860918904

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Rethinking the French Revolution by George C. Comninel Pdf

Historians generally—and Marxists in particular—have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it is based. In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys existing interpretations of the French Revolution and the methodological issues these raise for historians. He argues that the weaknesses of Marxist scholarship originate in Marx’s own method, which has led historians to fall back on abstract conceptions of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Comninel reasserts the principles of historical materialism that found their mature expression in Das Kapital; and outlines an interpretation which concludes that, while the revolution unified the nation and centralized the French state, it did not create a capitalist society.