Video: Marcus Rediker — History from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary
Marcus Rediker on the life of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay and the methods of "history from below."
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Posts tagged: history
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History as a Way of Learning
William Appleman Williams criticizes common abuses of American history and explains his own method.
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Political Theory Bookshelf: Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
A brief excerpt from Étienne Balibar and Immaneul Wallerstein's Race, Nation, Class — part of the Political Theory bookshelf, 50% off until Sunday, March 4 at 11:59pm EST.
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Jessie Kindig introduces Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo
"Women have always, it turns out, told about sexual violence, fought it, struggled to write it and say it. Women have fought to tell it to themselves" – Jessie Kindig introduces Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo
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The Paradox of the Holy Cow
Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.
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Myths of the October Revolution: An Interview with Alexander Rabinowitch
"We have an awful lot more to learn about the Russian Revolution."
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Early Christian Virgins on Sexuality and Virginity
Joyce Salisbury examines attitudes toward chastity, sexuality, and gender held by a group of Early Christian women ascetics.
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Henri Lefebvre’s Letter on the Unknown Painter to Comrade D.
Lefebvre's monument to the unknown painter remains to be built.
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Introduction to Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
Helena Sheehan introduces her survey of the philosophies of science developed during Marxism's first century.
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Reflections on Raymond Williams
Terry Eagleton, Elinor Taylor, Jacob Soule, Patrick Parrinder, and others on the life and work of Raymond Williams.
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Against the Neoliberalism Taboo
Rather than be discarded, the term "neoliberalism" needs to be defined with greater precision.
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On Nations and Nationalism
In this 1979 essay, historian Pierre Vilar reconstructs nineteenth- and twentieth-century Marxist theories of the nation — against the claim that they do not exist.
