英国马克思主义历史学家爱德华·汤普逊在当今西方历史学界和社会学界享有很高的声誉.他的名著《英国工人阶级的形成》自1963年问世以来,畅销世界许多国家,他的史学理论文集《理论的贫困及其他》以及关于十八世纪英国社会的一系列论文,在西方历史学界亦有很大的影响.有些著作不久将在我国出版中译本.爱德华·汤普逊生于1924年,初受教于肯斯伍德美以美教派办的公学,后入剑桥大学攻读历史.因受其兄弗兰克·汤普逊的影响,在大学期间就加入了英国共产 Edward Thompson, a British Marxist historian, enjoyed a high reputation in today’s Western historians and societies, whose masterpiece The Formation of the British Working Class has been popular in many countries of the world since its introduction in 1963. His historical theory The collection of “Theories of Poverty and Others,” and a series of essays on eighteenth-century British society, have also had a significant impact in Western historians. Some of the works will soon be published in China. Edward Thompson was born in 1924 , Initially taught in Kenswood American-American school of public health, after entering Cambridge University history.Because of his brother Frank Thompson’s influence, he joined the British Communist