| Description |
1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations |
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Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies classic texts ; volume 1 |
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Classic texts (University of Birmingham. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One: Historians and 'the people'; 1. Radical liberalism, Fabianism and social history; Political intellectuals; The culture of the historians: a radical liberal cultural group; The class and the politics of the historians; Theoretical developments; Political implications; The Hammonds' histories; The play of the 'institutional' and the 'cultural'; Pioneer feminist historians: women as part of the people?; Receptions; A legacy for social democracy |
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2. 'The people' in history: the Communist Party Historians' Group, 1946-56Maurice Dobb; Logic and history; Dobb and the historians; Culture and 'the people'; Populisms; Science; The British road to socialism; Cultural radicalism; The people in history; The Norman Yoke; The people; Utopias; The national-popular; 1956; The free-born Englishman; Histories and memories; 3. E.P. Thompson and the discipline of historical context; Introduction; The uses of history; History, sociology, and philosophy; The logic of process; History from below; The interpretation of Whig history |
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Marxism and culturalismSurvival and the critique of Stalinism; The bustard and the kangaroo; Part Two: Marxist theory and historical analysis; 4. Philosophy and history: some issues in recent marxist theory; Introductory; Rejections of marxism-as-philosophy; Marxism as method; Marxist epistemologies; Rationalism; Realism; Conclusion; 5. Reading for the best Marx: history-writing and historical abstraction; Introduction; The circuit as a whole and the method of inquiry; Sources; Marx's way of working: an overview; 'Appropriate the material in detail' |
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'Analyse its different forms of development''Track down their inner connections'; Historical abstractions; History and theory: a reformulation; Unhistorical abstractions; Chaotic abstractions and common-sense thinking; Sacred and profane: the character of idealism; Thin or simple abstractions: their rationality and limits; Intelligent thinking as a natural process: Marx's own premises; Marx's 'rationalism'; The materialist premise; The historical premise; The structural premise; Presenting the real movement: history, validation and critique; Presentation: what's at stake? |
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Levels of abstraction: 'logical' aspectsLevels of abstraction: historical aspects; The best Marx as a resource: some conclusions; Part Three: Autobiography/memory/tradition; 6. Popular memory: theory, politics, method; Defining popular memory; Popular memory as an object of study; Popular memory as a political practice; Resources and difficulties; Resources; Difficulties and contradictions; The problem of empiricism; Oral history -- the wrong defence?; Alternative readings: for structure and culture; Cultural readings; Historical process and autobiographical form |
| Summary |
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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Historiography
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historiography.
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
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Historiography.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Richard, 1939-
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| ISBN |
9781135032173 |
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1135032173 |
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9780203709412 |
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0203709411 |
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9781135032180 |
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1135032181 |
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9781135032166 |
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1135032165 |
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9780415649834 |
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0415649838 |
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