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The Making of the English Working Class (1963) |
Book written by E.P. Thompson containing the chronicle of the effects of nascent capitalism on ordinary English people between around 1780 and 1830. One of the most widely read and most often cited works by professional historians in the second half of the twentieth century. Novelty because: 1. concerns workers who were not in the vanguard organizing and making specific political demands; 2. proposed that “class” and “class consciousness” were not sociological abstractions that could be deduced from theories or numbers but particular relationships and experiences that needed to be described in a specific time and place. |
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E.P.Thompson (Edward Palmer) (1924-1993) |
Poet, literary critic, political activist and marxist historian from a cosmopolitan upper-middle class English family of missionaries and academics. Joined the communist party while he was a student, then left it after learning about the horrors of Stalinism; spent early career teaching adult education classes to workers; devoted to social and political movements e.g. the worldwide campaign for nuclear disarmament. Mostly famous for his magnus opus ‘The making of the English working class’ which was a novelty because of its focus on the subjective experiences of its protagonists: England’s traditional workers: weavers, shoemakers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen. |
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Marxist history |
An intellectual historical tradition whose central project is documenting and explaining the destructive effects of capitalism on the lives of the poor, focusing on the triumphs and failures of labour movements, and made claims to “scientific” rigour, focusing on numerical and quantitative data. |
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Women's history |
Subfield of history that emphasizes women's historical experiences, highlighting their roles in various societies, whether in unpaid or paid labor, and their impact on economies, demonstrating the importance of considering gender relations in history. Subfield of history focused on women, that stresses either the oppression of women suffered in the past or the difference of their experience from men's, however, recognising that women's history was inseparable from men's and aware that any history would be impoverished, absent careful consideration of gender relations. One of the main tasks of w.h. has been to prove that the majority of women in nearly every known society, have engaged in lifelong labour, paid or unpaid, and their work has been a central component of most economies; w.h. makes this visible and assesses it. |
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Gender history |
The term some historians of women prefer to use. The term "gender", serves to express the "idea" that masculinity and femininity are socially constructed categories that vary according to time and place and cannot be reduced to stable biological sex differences. It's a subfield of history that researches/ examines the role of gender and its influence on societal dynamics. It emphasizes how "gender ideologies" shape various human activities and power relationships. It extends women's history by revealing women's influence in male-dominated fields, and studies gender identity in historical events and language (e.g. how gendered notions have historically excluded women from political and public spheres). |
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National History |
The conventional approach to historical study that focuses on the history of a specific nation or state, typically examining the political, cultural developments and influence of geographical features within the boundaries of that nation. National history centers on the unique events, narratives, and values associated with a particular country, emphasizing its distinctiveness from other nations. |
Approach that focuses on... / Unique events, narratives and values / Distinctiveness |
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History of National Memory |
New field of history that emerged in the 1980s when historians started to approach the nation-state as "immagined community" devoted to the study of memory in history, and specifically to the ways in which modern nations have chosen to remember, but also, crucially, to forget, elements of their collective past. In recent times this field of study has gravitated to the ways in which nations organize the remembrance of war. |
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