History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 0191081434
• ISBN 13: 9780191081439
• Author: John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, Jan Rüger

What does it mean – and what might it yet come to mean – to write ‘history’ in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous century’s greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense
of what role an historian might seek to play, and attempt to help twenty-first-century society understand ‘how we got here’. They present new work in their sub-fields but also point to how their specialisms are developing, how they might further grow in the future, and how different areas of focus might

Table contents:

1: The Challenges of History

2: Gendering Property, Racing Capital

3: Writing Europe into the History of the British Empire

4: Indigenous Comparisons

5: Hobsbawm and Researching the History of Nationalism

6: Decolonization as Tragedy?

7: Jiangnan Style: Doing Global Economic History in the Medieval Period

8: Global History and the Transformation of Early Modern Europe

9: Industrial History, Working Lives, Nation, and Empire, Viewed through Some Key Welsh Woollen Obje

10: Social and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

11: Material Histories of the World: Scales and Dynamics

12: Five Swans over Littleport: Fenland Folklore and Popular Memory, c.1810–1978

13: Rethinking Gender and Labour History

14: Postcolonial History as War History in the Twentieth Century

15: The People’s History and the Politics of Everyday Life since 1945

16: A Visit to the Dead: Genealogy and the Historia

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