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• History: E. P. Thompson

  Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class – “One lesson among many we can draw” from E.P. Thompson

  1 January 2014, by YANG Manuel

  MY FATHER SHIH-LIN Yang died on August 14, 2013. He was born in 1920 — E.P. Thompson’s senior by four years — and, like EPT’s father Edward John, a Christian missionary and minister who cut his historical consciousness in the crucible of war and imperialism (the Japanese military suspected him, (…)

• History: E. P. Thompson

  E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History

  1 November 2013, by WINSLOW Barbara

  I READ THE Making Of the English Working Class in 1966 when I was on my junior year abroad at the University of Leeds, not realizing that E.P. Thompson was a lecturer in the Extramural (read adult education) Department at the very same university.
  It was not until I studied with Thompson at (…)

• History: E. P. Thompson

  E. P. Thompson: Recovering the Centrality of Class

  1 September 2013, by WOOD Ellen Meiksins

  WHEN E.P. THOMPSON’S The Making of the English Working Class came out in 1963, there still existed a vibrant anti-capitalist culture on the intellectual left, which flourished with a special vigor among the British Marxist historians, a remarkable group to which Thompson belonged. Within little (…)

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  Commemorating a Classic of History – E. P. Thompson

  1 September 2013, by Against the Current

  THE YEAR 1963 was momentous on many levels. In our previous issue (#165) we commemorated the assassination of civil rights organizer Medgar Evers, one among many martyrs of the bloody racist response to the growing civil rights movement. It was also the year of the military overthrow and (…)

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  Remembering E.P. Thompson

  1 September 2013, by BUHLE Paul

  A YOUTUBE VIDEO dating to 1982 surfaced some months ago, with E.P. Thompson and C.L.R. James discussing the exciting developments of the day.
  Thompson, a leading figure in the Euro­pean anti-missile/antiwar movement directed against Reagan’s global madness but also closely in touch with East (…)

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  E. P. Thompson: A Flawed Conception of Class

  1 September 2013, by LEVINE Bruce

  I FIRST READ The Making of the English Working Class as a radical-minded college student in the late 1960s. Its focus on “anonymous” working people certainly did inspire me and help launch me on my own subsequent studies of labor and laboring classes.
  I assume, though, that all these years (…)

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  E.P. Thompson: History as Argument

  1 September 2013, by PALMER Bryan D.

  A GREAT DEAL could be said about E.P. Thompson’s tremendous book, The Making of the English Working Class, on the 50^th anniversary of its publication. Yet I want to make only one rather simple point: argument animated Thompson for his entire life, and it figures centrally on almost every page of (…)