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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495159103321

Autore

Perry Matt

Titolo

Marxism and History / / by Matt Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030695118

3030695115

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

Theory and History, , 2947-4396

Disciplina

335.411

901

Soggetti

Historiography

History - Methodology

World politics

Labor

History

Social history

Historiography and Method

Political History

Labor History

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .