On History (Paperback, New Ed)

This fascinating collection brings together a wide range of the great left-wing historian's essays and lectures from the 1970s to the present day. (Kirkus UK)

In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. They deal, among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian's responsibilities; with the history of society and 'history from below'; with Marx and current historical trends or fashions; with Europe, the Russian Revolution and the descent into a world-wide barbarism that, increasing for most of the twentieth century, threatens to destroy the civilisation we have inherited from the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

These essays reveal a passionate belief in the importance of studying history, as well as displaying the incisive analysis, the breadth of allusion and the distinctive viewpoint for which this great historian is justly famous.
 

General

Imprint:	Abacus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1998
Authors:	Eric Hobsbawm
Dimensions:	196 x 131 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	416
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-11050-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	0-349-11050-6
Barcode:	9780349110509

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