爱德华.汤普森是当代英国杰出的马克思主义史学家,是英国马克思主义历史学派的创始人之一。汤普森的史学思想博大精深,他在工人阶级和阶级意识的形成、前工业化社会的阶级关系和政治特征、人在历史中的作用以及经济基础与上层建筑的关系、马克思主义理论与史学的关系等一系列问题上均提出独到见解,富有启迪意义。 Edward Thompson is an outstanding contemporary Marxist historian in Britain and one of the founders of the British Marxist school of history. Thompson’s thought of history is profound and profound. His work on the formation of the working class and class consciousness, the class relations and political features of the pre-industrialized society, the role of man in history, the relationship between the economic base and the superstructure, the relationship between Marxist theory and history, etc. Series of questions are made on the original insights, full of enlightenment significance.