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Editorial Introduction: Brian Manning, 21 May 1927–24 April 2004: Historian of the People and the English Revolution

Editorial Introduction: Brian Manning, 21 May 1927–24 April 2004: Historian of the People and the... Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (219–228) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Hill 1975, pp. 14, 18. 2 Manning 1976, Manning 1992, and Manning 2003. 3 Manning 1992, pp. 16–17. Review Articles Editorial Introduction: Brian Manning, 21 May 1927–24 April 2004 , Historian of the People and the English Revolution P AUL B LACKLEDGE Brian Manning was one of the Left’s finest historians, and Historical Materialism is proud to publish this review, which he wrote and submitted to us shortly before his untimely death last year. Brian made an important contribution to the social interpretation of the English Revolution; a contribution which added to, and deepened the analyses of Maurice Dobb and Christopher Hill, while highlighting important weaknesses with those of Robert Brenner and Ellen Wood. In this brief introductory essay, I argue that the power of Manning’s analysis was rooted in the perspective from which he viewed the Revolution. While traditional political historians have often denigrated history from below for producing irrelevant studies of the ‘lunatic fringe’, the influence of postmodernism on the study of history has tended to militate against the deployment of the best counter to this argument; that, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Editorial Introduction: Brian Manning, 21 May 1927–24 April 2004: Historian of the People and the English Revolution

Blackledge, Paul
Historical Materialism , Volume 13 (3): 219 – Jan 1, 2005
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (219–228) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Hill 1975, pp. 14, 18. 2 Manning 1976, Manning 1992, and Manning 2003. 3 Manning 1992, pp. 16–17. Review Articles Editorial Introduction: Brian Manning, 21 May 1927–24 April 2004 , Historian of the People and the English Revolution P AUL B LACKLEDGE Brian Manning was one of the Left’s finest historians, and Historical Materialism is proud to publish this review, which he wrote and submitted to us shortly before his untimely death last year. Brian made an important contribution to the social interpretation of the English Revolution; a contribution which added to, and deepened the analyses of Maurice Dobb and Christopher Hill, while highlighting important weaknesses with those of Robert Brenner and Ellen Wood. In this brief introductory essay, I argue that the power of Manning’s analysis was rooted in the perspective from which he viewed the Revolution. While traditional political historians have often denigrated history from below for producing irrelevant studies of the ‘lunatic fringe’, the influence of postmodernism on the study of history has tended to militate against the deployment of the best counter to this argument; that,

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