Harvey Kaye. The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History.

CONTENTS

Foreword / Christopher Hill

Preface

Introduction

1 – Political Theory and History: Antonio Gramsci and the British Marxist Historians

2 – George Rudé, All History Must Be Studied Afresh

3 – V. G. Kiernan, Seeing Things Historically

4 – E. P. Thompson, the British Marxist Historical Tradition and the Contemporary Crisis

5 – Our Island Story Retold: A. L. Morton and “The People” in History

6 – Capitalism and Democracy in America: Leo Huberman’s We, the People

7 – John Berger and the Question of History

8 – Past and Present: Notes on History and Politics