E.P. Thompson and English radicalism / edited by Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor.

Originally published in print: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.

E.P. Thompson : a short introduction / Roger Fieldhouse, Theodore Koditschek and Richard Taylor -- Adult education, history and literature. Thompson : the adult educator / Roger Fieldhouse ; The making of The Making / David Goodway ; The possibilities of theory : Thompson's Marxist history / Gheodore Koditschek ; The uses of literature : Thompson as writer, reader and critic / Luke Spencer -- Policy, theory and peace campaigns. Thompson and socialist humanism / Kate Soper -- Thompson's concept of class : the flesh and blood of self-emancipation / Nina Power ; Thompson and the early New Left / Michael Newman ; Thompson and the peace movement : from CND in the 1950s and 1960s to END in the 1980s / Richard Taylor -- E.P. Thompson : an overview. Paradox and the Thompson 'school of awkwardness / Bryan D. Palmer -- Afterword / Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor -- Appendix : three examples of Thompson's writing style.

E.P. Thompson and English radicalism celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential history books of the last fifty years, and demonstrates the present day relevance of Thomnpson's historical, political and polemical writing and peace campaigning.

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