Exam 3: Notable Figures and Works in History and Historiography
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In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used by the Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.
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Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist Louis Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism."
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..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.
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............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics was published posthumously in 1916.
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.............wrote 'The French Revolution: A History' (3 volumes, 1837), as a historical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.
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Among ...............many significant publications, The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.
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.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.
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............. most influential work was and remains 'The Making of the English Working Class', published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.
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.............. historian of science, Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions-its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach.
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....................is an Indian historian and is the author of 'Swadeshi Movement'.
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................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
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............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript 'The Historian's Craft', which he was working on at his death.
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.................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.
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In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against Das Kapital", .................claimed that the October Revolution in Russia had invalidated the idea that socialist revolution had to await the full development of capitalist forces of production.
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In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism.
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................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic.
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.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-century linguistics.
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............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies", criticizing the turn to Foucauldian studies of power- knowledge that left behind many of the empiricist and Marxist efforts of the first two volumes of Subaltern Studies.
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................published a large work, available in a two-volume English translation as Feudal Society.
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....................is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.
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