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.
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).
Innehållsförteckning
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.