THOMPSON, E.P

Additional reading Michael Bess, Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 19451989 (1993), provides a biographical overview of Thompson, emphasizing the relation between his history writing and his political engagement. Bryan D. Palmer, E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions (1994), offers a sympathetic analysis of Thompson's major works. Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McLelland (eds.), E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives (1990), is an interdisciplinary compilation of essays assessing Thompson's theoretical contributions and his place within the historiography of Marxism. michael bess Major Works: Historical works. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (1955); The Making of the English Working Class (1963); Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (1975); Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (1993). Political works. Warwick University Ltd.: Industry, Management, and the Universities (1970); Beyond the Cold War: A New Approach to the Arms Race and Nuclear Annihilation (1982); The Heavy Dancers (1985); The Sykaos Papers (1988). Articles. The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century, Past and Present, 50:76136 (1971); it and other articles are collected in The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays (1978), Writing By Candlelight (1980), and Customs in Common (1991).