Histories of a Radical Book

Antoinette Burton is the Swanlund Professor and Chair in the Department of History at the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana, and director of the Humanities Research Institute.

• PrefaceAntoinette Burton and Stephanie FortadoIntroduction: Radical Book History: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working ClassAntoinette BurtonChapter 1. Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson and the “New Labor History” in the United StatesJames R. BarrettChapter 2. History from Down Under: E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and AustraliaAnn CurthoysChapter 3. The Ecology of Class: Revolution, Weaponized Nature, and the Making of Campesino ConsciousnessChristopher R. BoyerChapter 4. Worst Conceivable Form: Race, Global Capital, and The Making of the English Working ClassZach SellChapter 5. Race, Antiracism, and the Place of Blackness in the Making and Remaking of the English Working ClassCaroline BresseyChapter 6. E. P. Thompson and the Kitchen Sink or Feeling from Below, c. 1963Lara KriegelChapter 7. South African Remains: E. P. Thompson, Biko, and the Limits of The Making of the English Working ClassIsabel HofmeyrChapter 8. Talking History: E. P. Thompson, C. L. R. James, and the Afterlives of InternationalismUtathya Chattopadhyaya