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On History

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#401976-UB23
Titel	On History
Auteur	Hobsbawm, Eric J.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Abacus
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0349110506
ISBN13	9780349110509
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world.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 rev... (Lees verder)eal 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.
Pagina's	403
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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