Marxist Approach

Historians:

- Barbara Ehrenreich

- Deirdre English

- Silvia Federici

- John Tosh

- Ludmilla Jordanova

- Durkheim Oplinger

Advantages:

- examines the role of the elite

- look at class conflict

- holistic approach (social, political and economic)

- natural laws that can be applied across time and place

- shared desire with sociologists to elicit rules that governed social change 

- why the witch-hunts started and what gave it momentum

- local relationships and cultural studies of worlds 

- Oplinger argued that…