Histories : Ancient, Modern, Personal and Political /
Histories examined here extend from the ancient to the modern, encompassing also the political and the personal. The reason for examining recent trends in the historiography of the Roman empire is because it is there, at the starting point of the historical trajectory on which the whole of Marxist t...
Saved in:
Main Author:
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
Series:
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ;
354.
Subjects:
Online Access: Login to view Source
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3
| LEADER | 05132nam a22004938i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BRILL9789004749498 | ||
| 003 | nllekb | ||
| 005 | 20251116180209.0 | ||
| 006 | m d | ||
| 007 | cr un uuuua | ||
| 008 | 251016s2026 gw sb 001 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9789004749498 |q (electronic book) | ||
| 020 | |z 9789004749481 |q (print) | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1163/9789004749498 |2 DOI | |
| 040 | |a NL-LeKB |c NL-LeKB |e rda | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a Z6207.G7 DE3 | |
| 072 | 7 | |a JHB |2 bicssc | |
| 072 | 7 | |a SOC |x 026000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 025.4/3 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Brass, Tom, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Histories : |b Ancient, Modern, Personal and Political / |c Tom Brass. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Ancient, Modern, Personal and Political | |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c 2026. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2026 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (268 pages) : |b illustrations. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026 | |
| 490 | 1 | |a Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; |v 354 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables XIII -- Introduction -- Faithful to Here? -- Ignoring History -- Oxford Debating Nerds -- Frightened Conformity -- Ominous Trends -- Themes -- Part 1: Histories: Ancient, Modern -- 1 Recovering the Subject(s)? Self and Others on Parade -- Introduction: Why Write? -- Politics? -- Capitalism? -- Marxism? -- Unknown Unknowns? -- Privileging the Image -- An Element of Creativity? -- Pax Romana? -- Conclusion -- 2 Marxist Mosaic or Non-Marxist Kaleidoscope? -- Introduction: Repositioning the Subject -- Onwards and Upwards? -- Consistency? -- Marxism, Methodology? -- Production Relations? -- Sedulously Aloof? -- What Marxism Is or Isn't -- Debt, Coercion as Free Wage-Labour? -- New Ways of Thinking? -- Who is the Enemy? -- Conclusion -- 3 Is Marx at Home in Ancient Rome, or Is the Eternal City the Locus of an Eternal Capitalism? -- Introduction: Deconstructing Rome (in a Day)? -- A Huge Container -- Decline and Fall? -- Sleepy British Positivists -- The Imaginary World of Decoration -- A Good Measure of Cold Water -- Remediable by New Discoveries? -- Ancient History Rewritten? -- Sins of the (Academic) Ancestors? -- Conclusion: Back to Basics -- 4 Ancient Rome and the Modern West: Death or Resurrection? -- Introduction: Woe Is Me -- Decline, Development, Modernisation -- Core, Periphery, Migration -- Open Doors, Disgruntled Corners -- Who Is Empowered, and Why? -- Crisis and Ruralisation -- Class Struggle or Negotiation? -- Populism and Its Contradictions -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Histories: Personal, Political -- 5 The (Not-So-Hidden) Politics of Populism -- Introduction -- A Border Crossed -- Rednecks, Policières -- Populism, or the Identity That Dares Not Speak Its Name -- Perils of Misunderstanding Populism -- What Marxism Does ... -- Conclusion -- 6 Drink, Work and Class in Rural Peru (Being There, Doing That) -- Introduction -- La Convención, Peru -- Drinking Costs and Patterns -- Drinking Ideology and Politics -- Drinking and Gender -- Drinking and Work - I -- Drinking and Work - II -- Drinking and Class -- Conclusion -- 7 On Anthropological Fieldwork (and Other Things) -- Introduction: Other Times, Other Places -- General Theoretical Sauce -- The Feel of Fieldwork -- An Unmediated Voice? -- Beginnings -- Endings -- Conclusion -- 8 Fragments of a Life, or Drawing a Line -- Introduction: Till All Our Strivings Cease -- Sleep and Forget -- Part of the Crowd -- A Life Not Led -- The Ground Moves -- Perhaps It's Some Political Thing -- Strong Opinions, Strongly Held -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Correspondence with John Cairncross, 1940s -- Appendix II: Cartoons -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index. | |
| 520 | |a Histories examined here extend from the ancient to the modern, encompassing also the political and the personal. The reason for examining recent trends in the historiography of the Roman empire is because it is there, at the starting point of the historical trajectory on which the whole of Marxist theory is based, that attempts are being made to undermine its foundations. Against this the efficacy of class and much else besides is reasserted via an examination of how and why discourse about work, gender, and property relations features at the rural grassroots, together with a critical analysis of how and why discarding Marxism has contributed to the current empowerment of populism. | ||
| 546 | |a English | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Classical Studies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social Sciences. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |t Histories : Ancient, Modern, Personal and Political. |d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026. |z 9789004749481 |w (OCoLC)1527859797 |
| 830 | 0 | |a Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; |v 354. | |
| 856 | 4 | |z DOI: |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004749498 | |
| 942 | |2 lcc |c EBOOK | ||
| 999 | |c 61505 |d 61505 | ||