The Poverty of Theory

Name: The Poverty of Theory
Author: E.P. Thompson

by E.P. Thompson

Theoretical polemic defending empirical history against structural theory approach

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E.P. Thompson

British Marxist historian whose The Making of the English Working Class is the greatest work of social history in the English language. He rescued the working class from the condescension of posterity and showed how class is made in experience and culture, not just economic position.

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