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The Essential E.P. Thompson, edited by Dorothy Thompson. New Press: New York, 2001. x + 498 pp. $45.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2005

Peter Linebaugh
Peter Linebaugh
Affiliation:
LaRoche College
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Abstract

For Aristotle identifying the essence of something was a step to its classification, and thus the genre to which it belonged. For Leibniz every individual thing had an essence, and thus it established specific difference. Who was the essential E.P. Thompson, one of a kind or a type? The vogue in America was to speak of the British Marxist historians, or English social history as a genre.

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Brief Report
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 66 , October 2004 , pp. 176 - 183
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© 2004 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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