Marxism And Historical Practice: Interventions And Appreciations Volume Ii: Historical Materialism Volume 99(Historical Materialism)

Collected here are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Bryan Palmer's interests as a radical historian. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, the conflicted legacies of American Trotskyism, and the representation of class politics in Scorsese's Gangs of New York are covered.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments 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

About the Author :
Bryan D. Palmer, Ph.D. (1977), SUNY-Binghamton, is Canada Research Chair in the Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University. His prize-winning monographs, edited collections, and articles on the history of labour and the left, and historiography and theory, have been translated and published in Greek, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. Among his many books are James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (UI Press, 2007) and the Brill-published Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 (2013).