On History

Eric Hobsbawm

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Abacus
01 November 1998

History; History: theory & methods

In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world.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.

By: Eric Hobsbawm
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780349110509
ISBN 10: 0349110506
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 01 November 1998
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries. He is the well-known author of AGE OF REVOLUTION 1789-1848, THE AGE OF CAPITAL 1848-1875 etc

Reviews for On History

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)