Peter D G Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 961079 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter D G Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Peter D G |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS P D G |
| AFILIACIONES | Aberystwyth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7906-196X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
New Orders
This text proposes an understanding of hegemony not as a concept, theory or historical narrative, but as a distinctive method of political work. It thematises this strategic perspective in terms of four central dimensions of Gramsci’s political thought in the Prison Notebooks : the goal of constructing a new order, the nature of self-emancipatory politics as the production of historical progress, the method of leadership conceived as fragility an…
Exposure to harm as a function of bargaining position
This article advances a zemiological framework of work-based harms, as a means of interrogating the contemporary crisis in the quality of work. Such a framework provides a more nuanced conceptualisation and a stronger political framing of the various harms that are incurred in the workplace than alternative understandings. We critically appraise the development of zemiology out of critical criminology and review recent models which demonstrate th…
Trade union strategies to tackle labour market insecurity
This paper analyses the role of trades councils and trade unions in organising within local and regional contexts around the challenges facing and potential union strategies for addressing the needs of insecure and precarious workers. We deploy a case study on the Sheffield Trade Union Council and the Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise campaign as a way of exploring innovations and challenges for the trade union movement for organising the unorganised. W…
Il cittadino sive subalterno
The subaltern has frequently been understood as a figure of exclusion, and as the specular opposite of the figure of the citizen. This understanding derives from the Subaltern Studies collective’s creative reading of partial English translations of Antonio Gramsci’s carceral writings. In this article, I argue that a contextualist and diachronic study of the development of the notion of subaltern classes in Gramsci’s full Prison Notebooks reveals …
After (post) hegemony
Classificatory struggles in the midst of austerity
This article reports findings on class identities amongst a small sample of mainly working-class residents in the City of Salford. We attempt to develop a Rancièrian framework for understanding class identities, centred on his key concept of dissensus, and how these ideas have been developed by Imogen Tyler through the notion of 'classificatory struggles'. From this, we identify a continuum of responses that are discernible in relation to the neo…
The Government of Time
Can the Marxist tradition still provide new resources for thinking the specificity of historical time? This volume proposes to transform our understanding of Marxism by reconnecting with the ‘subterranean currents’ of plural temporalities that have traversed its development. From Rousseau and Sieyès to Marx, from Bloch to Althusser, from Gramsci to Pasolini and Postcolonialism, the chapters in this volume seek both to valorise neglected resources…
Refiguring the Subaltern
The subaltern has frequently been understood as a figure of exclusion ever since it was first highlighted by the early Subaltern Studies collective’s creative reading of Antonio Gramsci’s carceral writings. In this article, I argue that a contextualist and diachronic study of the development of the notion of subaltern classes throughout Gramsci’s full Prison Notebooks reveals new resources for “refiguring” the subaltern. I propose three alternati…
Gramsci's Revolutions
Antonio Gramsci's notion of "passive revolution" has often been understood as a distinctive historical narrative, political concept, or theory of state formation. This article proposes to consider it instead as a "heuristic formula" within the "lexical architecture" of the Prison Notebooks . Based upon a diachronic and contextualist analysis of the usage of the formula, I argue that Gramsci's research on passive revolution emerged as a critical e…
Reverberations of The Prince
This article explores the ways in which Gramsci's engagement with Machiavelli and The Prince in particular result in three significant developments in the Prison Notebooks. First, I analyse how the 'heroic fury' of Gramsci's lifelong interest in Machiavelli's thought develops, during the composition of his carceral writings, into a novel approach to the reading of The Prince, giving rise to the famous notion of the 'modern Prince'. Second, I argu…
There's Nothing
This article explores attitudes and barriers to work, and the impact of punitive welfare reform in the City of Salford (Greater Manchester). Contextualising our discussion in relation to the contemporary landscape of inequality and social class in the UK, we draw attention to the trends towards the expansion of low-paid work, precarity, and stigmatisation, and highlight the need for more qualitative, geographically sensitive studies of how these …
Gramsci’s Plural Temporalities
The Plural Temporalities of Hegemony
Louis Althusser’s critique of Gramsci’s ‘absolute historicism’ was the occasion for the elaboration of a distinctive notion of plural historical temporalities or times. In this article, I argue, first, that Althusser’s theory of plural historical temporalities should be understood as integrally linked to his critique both of structuralism and of theories of the subject. Second, I argue that, Althusser’s early criticisms notwithstanding, Gramsci c…
A hipótese comunista e a questão da organização
Neste texto, exploro algumas das consequências da noção de hipótese comunista em relação à "questão da organização" e, em particular, ao debate emergente relacionado à forma-partido adequada para uma política radical hoje. Primeiramente, irei argumentar que as implicações organizacionais por vezes obscuras da afirmação genérica de comunismo se tornam mais claras quando situamos essa discussão historicamente como uma transposição e continuação, "e…
Gramsci’s Marxism
In the Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci proposes the distinctive notion of a ‘philosophy of praxis.’ The interpretation of the significance of this suggestive formulation has constituted a fertile field of discussion both of Gramsci’s approach to philosophical questions in his prison writings and, more broadly, the nature of Marxist philosophy. Indeed, in the early years of the reception of the Prison Notebooks, the notion of a philosophy of prax…
In Marx's Laboratory
In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began…
Hegemony, passive revolution and the modern Prince
Gramsci's concept of hegemony has been interpreted in a wide variety of ways, including a theory of consent, of political unity, of 'anti-politics', and of geopolitical competition. These interpretations are united in regarding hegemony as a general theory of political power and domination, and as deriving from a particular interpretation of the concept of passive revolution. Building upon the recent intense season of philological research on the…
Antonio Gramsci’s Contribution to a Critical Economics
According to conventional wisdom, Antonio Gramsci is a political philosopher lacking in, and who avoids, a serious interest in political economy. That is a serious misrepresentation of Gramsci’s works and thought. Equally wrong is the widespread view that anything Gramsci had to say about political economy is to be found in his scattered notes on ‘Americanism and Fordism’. On the contrary, a careful rereading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks shows t…
John Robinson's ‘State’ for the General Election of 1774
This note prints two documents of the 1774 general election compiled by John Robinson, secretary to the treasury. One is a list of the old house of commons in the summer of 1774, prior to its dissolution. MPs are listed, from the government standpoint, as Pro, Hopeful, Doubtful and Con. The other document is a list of the constituencies with the same political designations for MPs, both for the existing house of commons and the expected new House…
From the “Fall of the Rate of Profit” in the Grundrisse to the Cyclical Development of the Profit Rate in Capital
Marx’ s views on the “law” or “tendency” of the rate of profit to fall developed throughout his life from a law about the historical destination of the capitalist system as tending towards breakdown (the Grundrisse text of 1857-58), into a theory about the functioning of the capitalist mode of production as a (potentially) reproductive system (the 1864-65 manuscript of Capital III). The first view is compatible with a “naturalistic” and teleolog…
The Gramscian Moment
Drawing on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies, this book offers a reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, arguing that a renewal of the 'philosophy of praxis' constitutes a necessary element in the contemporary revitalisation of Marxism
Parliament and the Royal Marriages Act of 1772
"Modernity as "passive revolution
The recent revival of interest in Marxism within and beyond the academy has led to various proposals for contemporary reconstructions of historical materialism. This article proposes that the work of Antonio Gramsci could provide the basis for an historical materialist interdisciplinary research programme today that is capable of engaging productively in dialogue with other traditions of thought, while respecting their (and its own) differences. …
The Great Commoner
Shorter notice. A Prologue to Revolution. The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712-1770. AA Johnson
Journal Article Shorter notice. A Prologue to Revolution. The Political Career of George Grenville, 1712-1770. AA Johnson Get access PDG Thomas PDG Thomas University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Pages 453–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.453 Published: 01 April 1999
Refiguring the Subaltern
The subaltern has frequently been understood as a figure of exclusion ever since it was first highlighted by the early Subaltern Studies collective’s creative reading of Antonio Gramsci’s carceral writings. In this article, I argue that a contextualist and diachronic study of the development of the notion of subaltern classes throughout Gramsci’s full Prison Notebooks reveals new resources for “refiguring” the subaltern. I propose three alternati…
Hegemony, passive revolution and the modern Prince
Gramsci's concept of hegemony has been interpreted in a wide variety of ways, including a theory of consent, of political unity, of 'anti-politics', and of geopolitical competition. These interpretations are united in regarding hegemony as a general theory of political power and domination, and as deriving from a particular interpretation of the concept of passive revolution. Building upon the recent intense season of philological research on the…
"Modernity as "passive revolution
The recent revival of interest in Marxism within and beyond the academy has led to various proposals for contemporary reconstructions of historical materialism. This article proposes that the work of Antonio Gramsci could provide the basis for an historical materialist interdisciplinary research programme today that is capable of engaging productively in dialogue with other traditions of thought, while respecting their (and its own) differences. …
The Plural Temporalities of Hegemony
Louis Althusser’s critique of Gramsci’s ‘absolute historicism’ was the occasion for the elaboration of a distinctive notion of plural historical temporalities or times. In this article, I argue, first, that Althusser’s theory of plural historical temporalities should be understood as integrally linked to his critique both of structuralism and of theories of the subject. Second, I argue that, Althusser’s early criticisms notwithstanding, Gramsci c…
After (post) hegemony
Gramsci's Revolutions
Antonio Gramsci's notion of "passive revolution" has often been understood as a distinctive historical narrative, political concept, or theory of state formation. This article proposes to consider it instead as a "heuristic formula" within the "lexical architecture" of the Prison Notebooks . Based upon a diachronic and contextualist analysis of the usage of the formula, I argue that Gramsci's research on passive revolution emerged as a critical e…
Antonio Gramsci’s Contribution to a Critical Economics
According to conventional wisdom, Antonio Gramsci is a political philosopher lacking in, and who avoids, a serious interest in political economy. That is a serious misrepresentation of Gramsci’s works and thought. Equally wrong is the widespread view that anything Gramsci had to say about political economy is to be found in his scattered notes on ‘Americanism and Fordism’. On the contrary, a careful rereading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks shows t…
The Beginning of Parliamentary Reporting in Newspapers, 1768–1774
Reverberations of The Prince
This article explores the ways in which Gramsci's engagement with Machiavelli and The Prince in particular result in three significant developments in the Prison Notebooks. First, I analyse how the 'heroic fury' of Gramsci's lifelong interest in Machiavelli's thought develops, during the composition of his carceral writings, into a novel approach to the reading of The Prince, giving rise to the famous notion of the 'modern Prince'. Second, I argu…
There's Nothing
This article explores attitudes and barriers to work, and the impact of punitive welfare reform in the City of Salford (Greater Manchester). Contextualising our discussion in relation to the contemporary landscape of inequality and social class in the UK, we draw attention to the trends towards the expansion of low-paid work, precarity, and stigmatisation, and highlight the need for more qualitative, geographically sensitive studies of how these …
From the “Fall of the Rate of Profit” in the Grundrisse to the Cyclical Development of the Profit Rate in Capital
Marx’ s views on the “law” or “tendency” of the rate of profit to fall developed throughout his life from a law about the historical destination of the capitalist system as tending towards breakdown (the Grundrisse text of 1857-58), into a theory about the functioning of the capitalist mode of production as a (potentially) reproductive system (the 1864-65 manuscript of Capital III). The first view is compatible with a “naturalistic” and teleolog…
The Townshend Duties Crisis
Journal Article The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773. By Peter D. G. Thomas. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987. vii + 282 pp. $52.00.) Get access Benjamin W. Labaree Benjamin W. Labaree Williams College-Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 920, https://do…
Classificatory struggles in the midst of austerity
This article reports findings on class identities amongst a small sample of mainly working-class residents in the City of Salford. We attempt to develop a Rancièrian framework for understanding class identities, centred on his key concept of dissensus, and how these ideas have been developed by Imogen Tyler through the notion of 'classificatory struggles'. From this, we identify a continuum of responses that are discernible in relation to the neo…
John Robinson's ‘State’ for the General Election of 1774
This note prints two documents of the 1774 general election compiled by John Robinson, secretary to the treasury. One is a list of the old house of commons in the summer of 1774, prior to its dissolution. MPs are listed, from the government standpoint, as Pro, Hopeful, Doubtful and Con. The other document is a list of the constituencies with the same political designations for MPs, both for the existing house of commons and the expected new House…
Sir Roger Newdigate's Essays on Party, c. 1760
Journal Article Sir Roger Newdigate's Essays on Party, c. 1760 Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 403, April 1987, Pages 394–400, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.403.394 Published: 01 April 1987
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis
Journal Article British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The first phase of the American Revolution, 1763–1767. By P. D. G. Thomas. (London: Oxford University Press, 1975. vi + 394 pp. Table, notes, select bibliography, and index. $25.75.) Get access Franklin B. Wickwire Franklin B. Wickwire University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue…
The Beginning of Parliamentary Reporting in Newspapers, 1768–1774
The Authorship of the Manuscript Irish Parliamentary Diary (1776–1789) in the Library of Congress
The Authorship of the Manuscript Irish Parliamentary Diary (1776–1789) in the Library of Congress Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCII, January 1962, Pages 94–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCII.94 Published: 01 January 1962
Check List of M.P.s speaking in the House of Commons, 1768 to 1774
Check List of M.P.s speaking in the House of Commons, 1768 to 1774 Peter D. G. Thomas Peter D. G. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 35, Issue 92, November 1962, Pages 220–226, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1962.tb01430.x Published: 12 October 2007
Charles Townshend and American taxation in 1767
Journal Article Charles Townshend and American taxation in 1767 Get access P. D. G. THOMAS P. D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIII, Issue CCCXXVI, January 1968, Pages 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIII.CCCXXVI.33 Published: 01 January 1968
A Touch of Negritude
The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century
The business of House - the grand inquest of nation business of House - legislation business of House - finance arrangement of business attendance of members seating of House strangers in House day in House motions House in debate speakers in debate method of decision - divisions committees of House Mr. Speaker - political aspects Mr. Speaker - chairman of House
The Marquis
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis
Journal Article British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The first phase of the American Revolution, 1763–1767. By P. D. G. Thomas. (London: Oxford University Press, 1975. vi + 394 pp. Table, notes, select bibliography, and index. $25.75.) Get access Franklin B. Wickwire Franklin B. Wickwire University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue…
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis
Short Notices
SHORT NOTICES Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXV, October 1977, Pages 912-b–913, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXV.912-b Published: 01 October 1977
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXVIII, January 1981, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXVIII.218 Published: 01 January 1981
New Light on the Commons Debate of 1763 on the American Army
T HE British decision of I763 to maintain large peacetime army in North America has long been point of discussion and controversy among historians of the American Revolution.' Yet little attention has been paid to the debate of March 4, I763, when the Committee of Supply of the House of Commons took into consideration the annual army estimates.2 New information is provided by two hitherto unpublished reports of this debate. Both were made by memb…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCII, July 1984, Pages 628–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCII.628 Published: 01 July 1984
Short Notices
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCVI, July 1985, Pages 668-b–668, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCVI.668-b Published: 01 July 1985
George Iii and the American Revolution
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 1007-b–1008, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.1007-b Published: 01 October 1986
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCC, July 1986, Pages 721-b–722, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCC.721-b Published: 01 July 1986
Sir Roger Newdigate's Essays on Party, c. 1760
Journal Article Sir Roger Newdigate's Essays on Party, c. 1760 Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 403, April 1987, Pages 394–400, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.403.394 Published: 01 April 1987
Thoughts on the British Constitution' by George III in 1760
Journal Article ‘Thoughts on the British Constitution’ by George III in 1760 Get access Peter D. G. Thomas Peter D. G. Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 60, Issue 143, October 1987, Pages 361–363, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1987.tb00504.x Published: 12 October 2007
The Common People and Politics 1750-1790s
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access PETER D. G. THOMAS PETER D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 509-b–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.509-b Published: 01 April 1988
Politics or Principle
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