Marxism and Historical Practice (2 Vols)

Palmer, Bryan D.

Brill（2015/09発売）

• ページ数 918 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004301832
• DDC分類 335.4

Full Description

Bryan D. Palmer is one of Canada's preeminent historians, and one who has consistently extended the reach of social and labour history in Marxist ways. His publications include award winning monographs on Canadian topics from the Knights of Labor in the 1880s to Canada's 1960s, as well as wide-ranging excursions into global histories of transgression and marginality. In addition, he has written extensively on theoretical and historiographic realms. Marxism and Historical Practice draws together a selection of Palmer's writings from the past four decades, organizing them in two volumes that address the history of class formation and class struggle, on the one hand, and theory and historiography on the other. These volumes reveal the richness of Marxism as a historical practice, and the ways in which historical materialism can illuminate the diverse subjects of the past and the concerns of the present.

Contents

VOLUME I: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: CLASS STRUGGLE BEFORE THE CONSOLIDATION OF CLASS
1. Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America
2. Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s

PART II: WORKERS' CULTURES, STRUGGLES, AND MOBILISATIONS IN THE AGE OF CAPITALIST CONSOLIDATION, 1860-1920
3. In Street and Field and Hall: The Culture of Hamilton Workingmen, 1860-1914
4. The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900
5. Class, Conception and Conflict: The Thrust for Efficiency, Managerial Views of Labour, and the Working Class Rebellion, 1903-22

PART III: CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE POST-WAR SETTLEMENT
6. Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle
7. British Columbia's Solidarity: Reformism and the Fight Against the Right

PART IV: REMAPPING THE LANDSCAPE OF CLASS FORMATION: COMPARISONS AND CONJUNCTURES IN LABOUR HISTORY'S TELESCOPED LONGUE DURÉE
8. Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800-1900
9. 'Cracking the Stone': The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto's Dispossessed, 1830-1930
10. What's Law Got to Do with It? Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist Authority

References
Index

VOLUME II: Interventions and Appreciations

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS
1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited
2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View
3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview

PART II: REEL HISTORY: COMMENT ON THE CINEMATIC
4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness
5. The Hands that Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York
6. Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez

PART III: HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT
7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism
8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement
9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism

PART IV: APPRECIATIONS
10. Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth
11. Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted
12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890-1974
13. Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness'

References
Index