{"product_id":"history-from-the-bottom-up-and-the-inside-out-9780822369790","title":"History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American working-class history by investigating the ways in which working-class people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"James R. Barrett’s\u003ci\u003e History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e defies categorization. It is not singularly a memoir, nor a historiographical examination, nor a book about new approaches to history; it is an amalgam of all three. . . . . Barrett in this book not only synthesizes samples of his previous work, but offers a manifesto of sorts to young scholars for how labor history could be made of flesh and blood.\" -- Robert Cassanello * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHistory from the Bottom Up\u003c\/i\u003e presents a lesson in reflexivity and the process of historical study. . . . This book should be read by all scholars who want to learn more about the process of historical thinking. It is accessible and thought-provoking, arguing persuasively for a closer examination of our own motivations in researching history, as well as a declaration in favour of making the political personal.\" -- Sophie Cooper * Immigrants \u0026amp; Minorities *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHistory from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary life's work.\" -- Christopher Phelps * Labour History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Here’s how to read James Barrett’s marvellous new collection of essays. Begin with his opening call for American labour historians to pay more attention to the inner worlds of working people . . . so as to give their lives the complexity they deserve. Then flip to the final essay and make your way, one by one, back to the first, following Barrett’s distinguished career as he closes in on the standard he has set for the field.\" -- Kevin Boyle * Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Barrett makes a persuasive case for the utility and beauty of an inside-out approach to labour and working-class history. . . . With its unique, even refreshing mix of the personal and the political—both in content and form—I can see \u003ci\u003eHistory from the Bottom Up \u0026amp; Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e featuring on graduate reading lists for years to come.\" -- Kathryn Olivarius * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Barrett’s collection of essays is a wonderful book, a model for effective historical method. Students of history, whether practicing scholars or graduate students, will learn much from Barrett’s rigorous approach.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Thomas Castillo * Labor *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ David R. Roediger  ix  Acknowledgments  xvii  Introduction. The Subjective Side of Working-Class History  1  1. The Blessed Virgin Made Me a Socialist Historian: An Experiment in Catholic Autobiography and the Historical Understanding of Race and Class  7  2. Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism  33  3. Revolution and Personal Crisis: William Z. Foster, Personal Narrative, and the Subjective in the History of American Communism  58  4. Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication in Industrial America  77  5. The Bohemian Writer and the Radical Woodworker: A Study in Class Relations  102  6. Americanization from the Botton Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930  122  7. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the \"New Immigrant\" Working Class \/ James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger  145  8. Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture, 1880-1940  175  9. Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, and the \"New Labor History\" in the United States  192  Notes  209  Selected Bibliography  273  Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406106796375,"sku":"9780822369790","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369790.jpg?v=1730494551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-from-the-bottom-up-and-the-inside-out-9780822369790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}