Marxism and Historical Practice [electronic resource] : Interventions and Appreciations. Volume II.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1. Theoretical and Historiographic Interventions; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited; Chapter 2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View; Chapter 3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview; Part 2. Reel History: Comment on the Cinematic; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness

Chapter 5. The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New YorkChapter 6. Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez; Part 3. Historiography: The Revolutionary Left; Introduction to Part 3; Chapter 7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism; Chapter 8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement; Chapter 9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism; Part 4. Appreciations

Introduction to Part 4Chapter 10. Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth; Chapter 11. Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted; Chapter 12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890-1974; Chapter 13. Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness'; References; Index.

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The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer's interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the necessity of class analysis and as a sensitive critic of historical practice.