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Making Histories: Studies in history-writing and politics book cover

1st Edition

Making Histories Studies in history-writing and politics

Edited By CCCS, Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwartz, David Sutton Copyright 1982
400 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 2006. History and politics are fundamentally connected – indeed historians themselves have often made links between the two explicit. Making Histories explores the relationship between history and politics as it has developed in histories which are critical of the dominant, academic traditions of history writing, and makes a substantial contribution to the debate about the most... Read more

Part One: Historians and 'the people'  1. Radical liberalism, Fabianism and social history David Sutton  2. 'The people' in history: the Communist Party Historians' Group, 1946-56 Bill Schwarz  3. E. P. Thompson and the discipline of historical context Gregor McLennan  Part Two: Marxist theory and historical analysis  4. Philosophy and history: some issues in recent marxist theory Gregor McLennan  5. Reading for the best Marx: history-writing and historical abstraction Richard Johnson  Part Three: Autobiography/memory/tradition  6. Popular memory: theory, politics, method Popular Memory Group  7. 'Charms of residence': the public and the past Michael Bommes and Patrick Wright  8. 'The public face of feminism': early twentieth-century writings on women's suffrage Tricia Davis, Martin Durham, Catherine Hall, Mary Langan and David Sutton  Notes and references  Index

Biography

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was a research centre at the University of Birmingham. It is notable for producing many key studies and researchers in the field of Cultural Studies. It was founded in 1964 by Richard Hoggart, who became the first centre director. The Cultural Studies department at the University of Birmingham was closed in 2002.

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