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Book SynopsisThe two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last 50 years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations, are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Palmer's interests as a radical historian. Cultural forms and representational productions are analysed; political readings of historiography and pioneering historical practice provided.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS 1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited 2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View 3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview PART II: REEL HISTORY: COMMENT ON THE CINEMATIC 4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness 5. The Hands that Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York 6. Sugar Man’s Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez PART III: HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT 7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism 8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers’ Movement 9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism PART IV: APPRECIATIONS 10. Hobsbawm’s History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth 11. Hobsbawm’s Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted 12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890–1974 13. Paradox and the Thompson ‘School of Awkwardness’ References Index
