The Power of the past : essays for Eric Hobsbawm

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The Power of the past : essays for Eric Hobsbawm

edited by Pat Thane, Geoffrey Crossick and Roderick Floud

Cambridge University Press , Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1984

  • : France only

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Modern industrial societies are the creation of forced of change embedded in their pre-industrial and pre-capitalist past, forces which have shaped their economic structures, their politics of domination and resistance, their social ideas and relationships. In this book a distinguished group of historians focuses on this dialectal relationship between capitalism and its pre-capitalist heritage, revealing the ways in which older forms - whether they be social and economic structures and institutions, movements or ideologies, rituals or vocabulary - help to shape new, and are themselves reshaped in the process. The book thus develops a central theme in the writing of Eric Hobsbawm, to whom these essays are presented as a tribute on his retirement from Birkbeck College. An additional essay provides a major reappraisal of Hobsbawm's work. A number of different themes in modern European history are discussed in the context of the interrelationship of capitalism and the pre capitalist past. Several essays explore the history of the working class, its ideas and strategies of resistance, in France, Britain, Germany and Spain. Others discuss the place of landowners and bankers in the European ruling classes, and the development of central and eastern European societies. Their common concern is with the power of the past over patterns of change, and as such they are both a tribute to an outstanding British historian and a major contribution to the analysis of modern European history.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Capitalism and its pre-capitalist heritage Pat Thane and Geoffrey Crossick
  • 1. The politics of class struggle in the history of society: an appraisal of the work of Eric Hobsbawm Eugene D. Genovese
  • 2. Working class and sociability in France before 1848 Maurice Agulhon
  • 3. Men and women in the Parisian garment trades: discussions of family and work in the 1830s and 1840s Joan Wallach Scott
  • 4. Craft traditions and the labour movement in nineteenth-century Germany Jurgen Kocka
  • 5. Structures of subordination in nineteenth-century British industry Richard Price
  • 6. The first of May 1890 in France: the birth of a working-class ritual Michelle Perrot
  • 7. Civic rituals and patterns of resistance in Barcelona, 1890-1930 Temma Kaplan
  • 8. English landed society in the nineteenth-century F. M. L. Thompson
  • 9. British and European bankers 1882-1914: an 'aristocratic bourgeoisie'? Jose Harris and Pat Thane
  • 10. Problems of Jewish assimilation in Austria - Hungary in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Peter Hanak
  • 11. Alternatives to class revolution: Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War Ivan T. Berend
  • 12. Vicissitudes of feudalism in modern Poland Antoni Macak
  • Index.

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