Whigs and Hunters

Politics & Social Sciences

THOMPSON, E.P.

Politics & Government

Penguin Uk

This is a book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

Making Of The English Working Class

History

World

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Protest and survive (A Penguin special)

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality. Reviews: 'A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England' Martin Kettle, Observer 'Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst' E. J. Hobsbawm, Independent 'An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century' Michael Foot, Times Literary Supplement 'The greatest of our socialist historians' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman About the author: E. P. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time. Thompson was also an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War. He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons.

Modern Classics Making of the English Working Class (Penguin Modern Classics)

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin Classic

Edward (E. J.) Thompson first met Rabindranath Tagore on the day the poet learned he had won the Nobel Prize in 1913, and became closely involved with him and his circle during the preparation of Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Dramatist (OUP 1992), the first major English-language study of his writings. Drawing on his father's letters and journals, eminent historian E. P. Thompson, not only traces this stormy friendship, but also offers fresh insights into Anglo-Indian relations in the first quarter of this century.

"Alien Homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore

Oxford University Press

Edward John Thompson, a young English poet and Wesleyan missionary, wrote the first major English-language critical study of Tagore's poetry. This study by E.P. Thompson draws on his father's extensive collection of letters and journals to throw light on the unusual relationship between the two men and, by extension, between British and Bengali culture.

"Alien Homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Whigs and hunters: The origin of the Black act

Europe

Pantheon Books

This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morristhe great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writerwho remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the river of fireâ and become a committed socialistcommitted not only to the theory of socialism but also to the practice of it in the day-to-day struggle of working women and men in Victorian England. While both the British Labor Movement and the Marxists have venerated Morris, this legacy of his life proves that many of his ideas did not accord with the dominant reforming tendencies, providing a unique perspective on Morris scholarship.

William Morris: Romantic to revolutionary

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

MAKING WORKING CLASS SPEC

Pantheon

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