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Title: | A Historian of World Society: A Study of the Historian Eric Hobsbawm and a Critique of His Age of Capital |
Authors: | Dodoo, V. |
Keywords: | world history world society capital working class |
Issue Date: | Aug-2008 |
Publisher: | Journal of Science and Technology |
Citation: | Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008 pp 102-116 |
Abstract: | Professor Eric Hobsbawm may be described as a professional Marxist historian. The subjects he writes about include labour, artisans, peasants and the working class or, in short, the “forgotten majority” in the society. He regards himself as a historian of society and he practices dynamic history which is the interpretation of society with a view to changing it for the better. He has suggested that the pre-condition for history must be the existence of a total unit or system and has, accordingly, argued that world history - which he has undertaken in Age of Capital is only possible after 1848 when it became possible to think of the world as one unified economy. |
Description: | Article published in the Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008 pp 102-116 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5250 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal of Science and Technology 2000-
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