Marxism and History - A Critical Introduction

This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.

Adopted as a set book by the Open University.

List of contents

Introduction
Marx's ambiguous legacy
Forces and relations of production
Marx's productive force determinism
Productive force determinism as Marxist orthodoxy.
The origins of productive force determinism.
Productive force determinism: A critique and an alternative.
Productive force determinism and functional explanation.
Productive force determinism: A critique.
Productive force determinism: An alternative.
Base and superstructure: Definition and determination.
Modes of production: Variant forms of the 'base'.
The political superstructure.
The idealist superstructure.

About the author

S.H. Rigby is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester.

Summary

This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate. Adopted as a set book by the Open University. -- .

Product details

• Authors: S. H. Rigby, Rigby S. H.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1998
• EAN: 9780719056123
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5612-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, History: theory and methods