On history
By: Eric Hobsbawm.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: History -- Philosophy; Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outside and inside history; title: The sense of the past; title: What can history tell us about contemporary society?; title: Looking forward: history and the future; title: Has history made progress?; title: From social history to the history of society; title: Historians and economists: I; title: Historians and economists: II; title: Partisanship; title: What do historians owe to Karl Marx?; title: Marx and history; title: All peoples have a history; title: British history and the Annales: a note; title: On the revival of narrative; title: Postmodernism in the forest; title: On history from below; title: The curious history of Europe; title: The present as history; title: Can we write the history of the Russian Revolution?; title: Barbarism: a user's guide; title: Identity history is not enough.