LEADER 03198nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910786205603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84779-134-4 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791344 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276691 035 $a(EBL)1069515 035 $a(OCoLC)818847208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000799970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12343579 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10765580 035 $a(PQKB)11304304 035 $a(OCoLC)957515063 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069515 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623293 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069515 035 $a(DE-B1597)659665 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791344 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276691 100 $a20121129d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReflections on the Marxist theory of history$b[electronic resource] /$fPaul Blackledge 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 0 $aIssues in Historiography MUP 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7190-6957-2 311 $a0-7190-6956-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a9780719069567; 9780719069567; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Marxism and history; 2 Marx, Engels and historical materialism; 3 Historical materialism: from the Second to the Third International; 4 Modes of production and social transitions; 5 Structure, agency and the struggle for freedom; 6 The present as history: Marxism and post-modernity; Index 330 $aA decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the 'End of History', anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply 'another world is possible'. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as bei 410 0$aIssues in Historiography 606 $aHistorical materialism 610 $aEngels' theory of history. 610 $aMarxism. 610 $aMarxist historiography. 610 $aMarxist theory of history. 610 $aStalinism. 610 $aanti-capitalist movement. 610 $aanti-war movement. 610 $acapitalism. 610 $amode of production. 610 $apost-modern world. 610 $apost-modernist approaches. 610 $arelations of production. 615 0$aHistorical materialism. 676 $a335.4119 676 $a901 700 $aBlackledge$b Paul$0503983 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786205603321 996 $aReflections on the Marxist theory of history$93780142 997 $aUNINA