Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century
Chris Wickham
Abstract
Since 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date, but history has not stopped, and historical change continues to need explanation. There is still plenty of space for structural analysis of how history in all periods develops, and a Marxism un-linked to the Soviet past offers to many the most rigorous of these approaches. This volume explores from a wide variety of perspectives what Marxism has done for history-writing, and what it can, or cannot, still do. Eight historians and social scientists give their perspectives, both from Marxist and from non-M ... More
Since 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date, but history has not stopped, and historical change continues to need explanation. There is still plenty of space for structural analysis of how history in all periods develops, and a Marxism un-linked to the Soviet past offers to many the most rigorous of these approaches. This volume explores from a wide variety of perspectives what Marxism has done for history-writing, and what it can, or cannot, still do. Eight historians and social scientists give their perspectives, both from Marxist and from non-Marxist positions, on history and what role Marxist analysis has in it.
Keywords:
Marxist history,
history-writing,
non-Marxist history,
Marxist analysis,
Marxism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197264034 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264034.001.0001 |
