Edward Palmer Thompson

"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic work of the Hammonds."--Commentary "Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement

The Making of the English Working Class

An analysis of England's largest social class traces the evolution of the complex culture from which the working class institutions emerged in England. By the author of The Making of the English Working Class.

Customs in Common

"Dorothy Thompson writes in her introduction: 'This essay is a rarity among Edward's published work. Although he was throughout his life interested in the philosophy of history and in various theoretical formulations, he concerned himself with these mainly in private reading and private discussion. Why then did he write this essay? He had read the works of Louis Althusser and found very little in them to affect his work. When Althusser appeared on the scene he made little impact on practising historians. For some reason however, he suddenly became a major force among graduate students and some young historians and literary scholars. Most historians would have been prepared to wait for the new influence to demonstrate its validity in the production of innovative work in history; not only did this not happen, but Althusser's followers - even some of the historians among them - began to declare that history was a non-discipline and that its study was of no value. It was the influence that Althusser's writings were having on scholarship that made Edward take on the uncongenial task of putting the case for history against his closed system.'" "The result is a major critique of Althusserian Marxism, or 'theoretical practice', entering closely into questions of epistemology and of the theory and practice of the historian. Around this detailed polemic, Thompson develops a constructive view of an alternative, socialist tradition, empirical and self-critical in method, and fully open to the creative practice evidenced by history - a tradition sharply opposed to much that now passes as 'Marxism'. In converging shafts of close analysis and Swiftian irony, the author defoliates Althusser's arcane, rationalist rhetoric and reinstates 'historicism', 'empiricism', 'moralism' and 'socialist humanism' in a different Marxist inheritance." "The title of this essay echoes The Poverty of Philosophy, Marx's annihiliating attack on Proudhon, which, like Engels' Anti-Duhring, is a work read long after its subject has been consigned to oblivion."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Or an Orrery of Errors

The Poverty of Theory

A brilliant interdisciplinary re-examination of Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background by the renowned historian and critic.

William Blake and the Moral Law

Witness Against the Beast

A collection of twenty historical and review essays published over a period of thirty years covers topics ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to the British family

Writings on History and Culture

Making History

Peter Linebaugh

Douglas Hay

Calvin Winslow

John Rule

Illuminates the nature and social significance of crime in eighteenth-century England and reveals attitudes toward public hangings in London. Bibliogs

Crime and Society in Eighteenth-century England

Albion's Fatal Tree

Rosaura Eichemberg

Com este livro E. P. THompson (1924-93) concluiu sua obra sobre história do trabalho, motins, radicalismo, crime, costume, lei, sedição e cultura populares, universos de pesquisa que formam o campo de estudos conhecido como "história a partir de baixo. EM constante diálogo com a antropologia, o direito e a economia, Thompson analisa hábitos dos setores populares britânicos, como a defesa do uso comunal das terras quando da intensificação do processo de cercamentos, a venda da esposa em leilão como estratégia de divórcio, as novas noções de tempo trazidas pelo capitalismo industrial ou a cruel punição aplicada a quem desrespeitasse as regras dos vilarejos. ESses costumes e tradições são estudados aqui como defesas de direitos imemoriais ou estratégias de manipulação da lei numa sociedade que se defrontava com as novas imposições do capitalismo.

Costumes em comum

Few historians in this century have had as lasting and marked an impact as E. P. Thompson. His rewriting of English history, beginning with The Making of the English Working Class, has affected a whole generation of historians. At the same time, his role as a political activist was second only to Bertrand Russells, whose mantle he ......

The Historical Experience

Protest and Survival

Explores the contrasts between the genteel, aristocratic side of 18th century British society and criminal elements characterized by raucous public hangings marked by insubordination and riot.

Folklore, Anthropology and Social History

Producto de años de investigación y debate, "Costumbres en común" describe la compleja cultura de la que surgieron las instituciones de la clase trabajadora en Inglaterra, una serie de tradiciones y costumbres que la nueva clase trabajadora luchó para preservar hasta la época victoriana. Thompson investiga la desaparición gradual de una serie de costumbres culturales en el contexto de los grandes trastornos del siglo XVIII. Como los aldeanos fueron sometidos a un sistema legal cada vez más hostil a la costumbre, intentaron resistir y preservar la tradición. Para el autor son los gobernantes y terratenientes quienes fueron un problema para la gente, cuya cultura exuberante precedió a la formación de las instituciones y la conciencia de la clase trabajadora.

Costumbres en común

Romantic to Revolutionary

William Morris

E. P. Thompson was one of the most visionary and influential historians of the last century, acclaimed as the innovator of "history from below"--the immersion in the many details of everyday life, particularly among the working class, as a vital means of understanding the past and the patterns of history itself. His classic work, The Making of the English Working Class, changed the ways in which not only historians but a whole new generation looked at the past. The Essential Thompson, the largest collection of Thompson's historical work published in one volume, gives us the full range of his scholarly output, from William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary and The Making of the English Working Class, to Albion's Fatal Tree and Customs in Common. Both a superb introduction for those new to Thompson's work, and an invaluable addition to any history-lover's collection, The Essential Thompson is a stirring testament to the range, complexity, and vision of "one of the most eloquent, powerful, and independent voices of our time" (The Observer, London).

The Essential E.P. Thompson

Bajo los mitos de la revolución agrícola y de la Ilustración, Thompson descubre la realidad de una cultura plebeya que se legitimaba con la retórica de la costumbre, pero cuyo objetivo esencial era la lucha por las necesidades y las expectativas de la comunidad.

Edward Palmer Thompson

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