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The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete
study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary
academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic
text, Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the debate on the transition
to capitalism; Rodney Hilton on feudalism and the English
peasantry; Christopher Hill on the English Revolution; Eric
Hobsbawm on workers, peasants and world history; and E.P. Thompson
on the making of the English working class. Kaye compares their
perspective on history with other approaches, such as that of the
French Annales school, and concludes with a discussion of the
British Marxist historians' contribution to the formation of a
democratic historical consciousness. The British Marxist Historians
is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the intellectual
history of the late twentieth century.
'The editor, Harvey J Kaye, has carefully assembled a representative selection of Kiernan's essays. ... The essays selected span Kiernan's interests from the beginnings of European expansion to decolonization. They include the economic political, and cultural dimensions of imperialism, and discuss its delayed impact both on European societies and on previusly colonial ones.'
`The book would prove to be utterly useful for students of international relations and world history.' - USI Jrnl
"The American Radical" tells the story of American democracy from
the late 18th century to the present, through the lives of the
women and men who have fought to advance it. The original
biographical portraits presented in this collection show how, in
every period of history, Americans from various backgrounds have
stood as activists, authors and artists to challenge the powerful.
The editors have assembled a group of writers on the radical
tradition, who introduce the movements, ideas and struggles of the
revolutionaries, rebels and reformers important to the American
national experience; they include independence fighters,
Labourists, suffragists, socialists, feminists, pacifists,
environmentalists, and campaigners for social justice and the civil
rights of the oppressed.
The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render
a manifesto - a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American
radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American
historical memory and imagination and making America radical once
again. For too long we have allowed the right to hijack the past
and suppress, efface, lie about, and/or appropriate the essentially
radical story of America from the struggles of the Revolution to
those of the Age of Roosevelt and the 1960s. And no less
tragically, we on the left, apparently haunted by the worst of our
national experience, have turned our back on our own story and
deferred to the tales of conservatives and reactionaries. Fleeing
from the past, we merely compound the tragedies and ironies of
American history, for we turn our backs on both the nation's
democratic creed and radical imperative, but also the struggles
from the bottom up, the struggles in which working people and
others have laid hold of America's revolutionary promise and
succeeded in making the United States freer, more equal and more
democratic, at times, radically so. As Bill Moyers put it in 2008:
"Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story
that becomes America's dominant narrative will shape our collective
imagination and our politics for a long time." The time has come
for us to advance that narrative.
Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of
the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through
writings like "Common Sense"--and words such as "The sun never
shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to
begin the world over again," and "These are the times that try
men's souls"--he not only turned America's colonial rebellion into
a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J. Kaye demonstrates,
articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose
and promise.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
A critical and democratic perspective on American politics,
letters, and higher education. Drawing from public and personal
experiences, the author invites readers to think about their own
level of social consciousness. Topics include: capitalism and class
inequality; and teaching and parenting.
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