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Article: Memoir, social history and commitment: Eric Hobsbawm's interesting times.(New Topics And Historians)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2003
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Social history is today a rather anxious pursuit. By some measures it is the norm for historical research and understanding and the basis on which all serious historians proceed. Its assumptions about the proper subject matter of history--about who and what matters and ought to occupy historians' attention--and its assertion of the primacy of the "social" and of the need to work "from the bottom up" have been widely accepted and constitute the conventional wisdom of the field. Textbooks almost uniformly reflect the fact that social history defines the dominant way of talking about the past and so, increasingly, do the prescribed curricula for the teaching of history in ...
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