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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1 From the 1930s to the Cold War

1. The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s

PART 2 New Left, old problems

2. Yesterday the struggle: ‘Outside the Whale’ and the fight for the 1930s

3. A peculiar classic

4. Getting out of the tent

PART 3 Crisis and creativity

5. The road to St Paul’s

6. The eagle and the bustard:EP Thompson and Louis Althusser

7. ‘Mountainous inconsistency’:EP Thompson, Marx,and ‘The Poverty of Theory’

8. ‘Don’t Tread on Me’: the other side of Thompson’s critique

9. Between Zhdanov and Bloomsbury: the poetry and poetics of EP Thompson

PART 4 Making peace

10. After St Paul’s:EP Thompson’s late work

Conclusion The last Muggletonian Marxist: EP Thompson’s paradoxical triumph

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