Pasts and Futures : or, What is History For?

Chesneaux, Jean

Published by Thames and Hudson (1978), London, 1978

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22x14cm, x,150 pp., Translated from the French by Schofield Coryell. Foreword by Geoffrey Barraclough. Contents: History as a dynamic relationship to the past; History & social practice: in the establishment camp; History & social practice: on the side of the people's struggles; Was marx an 'historian'?; Reversing the past-present relationship; The false assumption of historical rhetoric; A sociological pocket-guide to historical knowledge; The traps of quadripartition in history; The historian's nostalgia for 'history in the grand style'; Pre-capitalist societies: have they a common past? Capitalism: the great unifier of history; National 'belongingness' in history; Merging natural history & social history; The short run and the long run: continuity and discontinuity in history; History 'from the top down' and grass roots history: the role of the masses; The pace of development: the ups and downs of history; The space dimension of history: geopolitics; Breaking the shell of history: the inter-disciplinary approach; In search of a history for the revolution. Seller Inventory # 026569

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pasts and Futures : or, What is History For?

Publisher: Thames and Hudson (1978), London

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: orig. boards

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.