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  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Workshop of the World

    Essays in People's History

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    A new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION’, Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering historian Raphael Samuel opened up new vistas of historical enquiry. He was committed to the idea of people’s history, in which he excavated the ordinary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lost World of British Communism

    by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light ...
    A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great BritainThe Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

    Edited by Raphael Samuel, Gareth Stedman Jones ...
    First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989)

    Volume I: History and Politics

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1989, this is the first of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique.This volume deals with the role of politics, history, religion, imperialism and race in the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989)

    Volume II: Minorities and Outsiders

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1989, this is the second of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique.This volume examines how national identity has competed with alternative, more personal forms of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Village Life and Labour (1975)

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1975, this volume aims to direct attention at a number of aspects of the lives and occupations of village labourers in the nineteenth-century that have been little examined by historians outside of agriculture. Some of the factors examined include the labourer’s gender, whether they lived in ‘closed’ or ‘open’ villages and what they worked at during the different seasons of the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • East End Underworld (1981)

    Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known figure in the East End underworld during the first half of the twentieth century. The first five chapters survey his life in the ‘Jago’ slum between 1887 and 1896, offering a different view of an often vilified district. The subsequent phases of his life as a cabinet-maker, street trader and wardrobe dealer ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977)

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: The Enemy Within (1986)

    Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984-5

    Edited by Raphael Samuel, Barbara Bloomfield, Guy Boanas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures — the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)

    Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America

    Edited by Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl, Stuart Cosgrove ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers’ Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • People's History and Socialist Theory (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other. It takes stock of then recent work, explores the main new lines, and looks at the political and ideological circumstances shaping the direction of historical work, past and present. The scope of the book is international ... Read more

    $54.99 USD