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History after Hobsbawm : writing the past for the twenty-first century / John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
- Hobsbawm, E. J.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- An essay collection taking its cue from one of the twentieth century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, this book asks what it is to be a twenty-first-century historian, attempts to help society understand 'how we got here', and introduces some of the most exciting new lines of research in subjects from the medieval period to the present.
- Contents:
- The challenges of history / John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger
- Gendering property, racing capital / Catherine Hall
- Writing Europe into the history of the British Empire / Jan Rüger
- Indigenous comparisons / Renaud Morieux
- Hobsbawm and researching the history of nationalism / John Breuilly
- Decolonization as tragedy? / Bill Schwarz
- Jiangnan style : doing global economic history in the medieval period / Chris Wickham
- Global history and the transformation of early modern Europe / Maxine Berg
- Industrial history, working lives, nation, and empire, viewed through some key Welsh woollen objects / Pat Hudson
- Social and environmental history in the anthropocene / Paul Warde
- Material histories of the world : scales and dynamics / Frank Trentmann
- Five swans over Littleport : Fenland folklore and popular memory, c. 1810-1978 / Andy Wood
- Rethinking gender and labour history / Sonya O. Rose and Sean Brady
- Postcolonial history as war history in the twentieth century / Yasmin Khan
- The people's history and the politics of everyday life since 1945 / Jon Lawrence
- A visit to the dead : genealogy and the historian / Alison Light
- A 'slight angle to the universe' : Eric Hobsbawm, politics, and history / Geoff Eley.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-182212-4
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