Marxism and History

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This textbook examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, Matt Perry offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist historians and thinkers, and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work. This is a concise, thorough overview of an important area of historiography. This new edition will be thoroughly updated throughout to incorporate the considerable new research in the area since publication of the first edition in 2002.

Autorenportrait

Matt Perry is Reader in Labour History at Newcastle University, UK. Amongst his publications in social and labour history are the biography Red Ellen Wilkinson: Her Ideas, Movements and World (2014) and a study of the mutinies of 1919: Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919 (2019).

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