Biblioteca / 2020-2029
Antoinette Burton – Stephanie Fortado, editors. Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class.
Nueva York: Berghahn Books, 2021.
xii, 133 páginas.
Originamente publicado en el número especial de Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, volume 41, n° 1 (2015).
Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993)
Para bien o para mal, el monumental libro de E.P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class ha desempeñado un papel esencial en la configuración de la vida intelectual de generaciones de lectores desde su publicación original en 1963. Esta recopilación explora el complejo impacto del libro de Thompson, como proyecto intelectual y como objeto material, y lo relaciona con la historia social y cultural de la propia forma del libro, un artefacto perdurable de la historia inglesa.
Contents
Preface / Antoinette Burton and Stephanie Fortado
Introduction
Radical Book History: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class / Antoinette Burton
1 – Making and Unmaking the Working Class: E. P. Thompson and the “New Labor History” in the United States / James R. Barrett
2 – History from Down Under: E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class and Australia / Ann Curthoys
3 – The Ecology of Class: Revolution, Weaponized Nature, and the Making of Campesino Consciousness / Christopher R. Boyer
4 – Worst Conceivable Form: Race, Global Capital, and The Making of the English Working Class / Zach Sell
5 – Race, Antiracism, and the Place of Blackness in the Making and Remaking of the English Working Class / Caroline Bressey
6 – E. P. Thompson and the Kitchen Sink or Feeling from Below, c. 1963 / Lara Kriegel
7 – South African Remains: E. P. Thompson, Biko, and the Limits of The Making of the English Working Class / Isabel Hofmeyr
8 – Talking History: E. P. Thompson, C. L. R. James, and the Afterlives of Internationalism / Utathya Chattopadhyaya