In: Historical Materialism Book Series
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited -- Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View -- Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness -- The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York -- Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism -- Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement -- The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth -- Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted -- James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890–1974 -- Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness' -- References -- Index.
In: Historical Materialism Book Series
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
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