E P Thompson: 16 books
by Dorothy Thompson, E.P Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking...
Customs in Common
Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The “meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane” sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review).
This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the...
Witness Against the Beast
William Blake and the Moral Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake’s cultural milieu and intellectual background,...
by E. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune)****.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in...
William Morris
Romantic to Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led...
The Rising of the Luddites
Chartists and Plug-Drawers
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left
Essays and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history,
best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The
Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows,
Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated
educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist,...
by E. P. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1978
This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England’s most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson’s famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism...
Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World
The Case of Marginalized Populations at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters in this volume—written by experts on this subject-matter—examine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,...
Economics of Wildfire Management
The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase...
by A. Akovbiantz, P. Buchmann, C.A. Cabre-Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by J. L. Sapphire, Adrienne Thompson, Penelope Christian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Love is a powerful drug…whether it’s the love of family, friends, or that special someone who takes your breath away…chances are, you know the feeling. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Do you break up, then make up? Or do you just walk away? In The Ex Chronicles, twenty talented writers...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
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