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A magisterial study of the politics and practice of the American Trotskyist movement in its heyday.

In James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 Bryan D. Palmer provides a deeply-researched and elegantly-written account of a revolutionary movement that recasts understandings of working-class militancy and the Comintern-affiliated communists so often depicted as a decisive force in 1930s radicalism.

Toronto's Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people's resistance. This is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated.

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Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving from Rosedale, Kansas to Chicago, New York, and Moscow. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situ...

This biography explores the historian Edward Thompson's life from his youth in the Communist Party, through his academic career, his activism in the campaign for nuclear disarmament, and his role in the New Left. It discusses aspects and influences of his life that are often neglected.

Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs -- those who defied authority, choosing to live outside the defining cultural dominions of early insurgent and, later, dominant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer calls people of the night. These lives of oppositio...

Can workers win? Bryan D. Palmer presents a detailed account of the Minneapolis teamsters' strikes of 1934 to suggest that working-class victories are possible, however bad the circumstances.

Engaging and well researched, Revolutionary Teamsters is the story of a strike that sparked the labor upsurge of the 1930s

In Marxism and Historical Practice Bryan D. Palmer provides an impressive sweep across historical subjects and historians as subjects. These essays contribute to and extend the rich tradition of Marxist analysis, so necessary in understanding the past, informing the present, and changing the future.

The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer's interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the necessity of class analysis and as a sensitive critic of historical practice.

The pieces collected in the first volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle, offer a rich, empirically grounded survey of North American social struggles and a sustained reflection on the more general questions of historical transformation.

Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years.

Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years

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Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United States radicalism, the narrative moving from Rosedale, Kansas to Chicago, New York, and Moscow. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situ...

Focusing on peasants, witches, runaway slaves, prostitutes, revolutionaries and others who defied authority, this book details these lives of exclusion and challenge, looking at the rise and transformation of capitalism as it was lived by the dispossessed.

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