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19 février 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10008
- isbn: 9782735109388
- eisbn: 9782735118502
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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James Anthony Mangan, « Crown of Self-Sacrifice: A Self-Sacrificial Elite in the Age of the New Imperialism », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10008
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Edward Palmer Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963) is widely known throughout the academic world–and indeed beyond. Justifiably. It has many virtues. Among other things, it is an impressive synthesis of the ideas of the “good and the great” of the social sciences. In it we hear echoes not only of Gramsci but of Weber and Durkheim, and we see references not only to classes but to codes and values (Alexander 1990: 21). Thompson, of course, was concerned, first and foremost,...