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E. P. Thompson
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Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) was a British writer, historian, novelist, and journalist. Born in Oxford and educated at the Dragon School and Corpus Christi College, he served in the British Army during World War II. A member of the New Left movement and a socialist, Thompson held positions at the University of Leeds, the University of Warwick, and the University of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Thompson’s field of work was history, and he authored numerous works, including *Albion's Fatal Tree*, *Plebeische Kultur und moralische Ökonomie*, *Tempo, capitalismo e classe*, *Società patrizia, cultura plebea*, and *Warwick University Ltd*. He died in Worcester.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 1993
- Works
- 58
Top works
- Plebeische Kultur und moralische Ökonomie
- Tempo, capitalismo e classe
- Albion's Fatal Tree
- Società patrizia, cultura plebea
- Warwick University Ltd
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 1993
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,683x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,102x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,060x
- The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools
· 1997 · cited 31,745x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,986x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Edward Palmer Thompson , ( 1924-02-03 ) 3 February 1924, Oxford , England
- Died
- 28 August 1993 (aged 69), Upper Wick , Worcestershire, England
- Known for
- The Making of the English Working Class
- Spouse
- Dorothy Towers ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 )
- Father
- Edward John Thompson
- Education
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Influences
- Karl Marx , William Morris , William Blake
- Discipline
- History
- Institutions
- University of Warwick (until 1971), University of Leeds
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963).
In 1966, Thompson coined the term "history from below" to describe his approach to social history, which became one of the most consequential developments within the global history discipline. History from below arose from the Communist Party Historians Group and its work to popularise historical materialism. Thompson's work is considered by some to have been among the most important contributions to social history in the latter twentieth-century, with a global impact, including on scholarship in Asia and Africa. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the second most important historian of the previous 60 years, behind only Fernand Braudel.
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