The future of class in history : what's left of the social? / Geoff Eley & Keith Nield.

By:

Eley, Geoff, 1949-

Contributor(s):

Nield, Keith

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ann Arbor, MI : The University of Michigan Press, c2007.Description: ix, 264 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0472099647 (cloth)
9780472099641 (cloth)
0472069640 (pbk.)
9780472069644 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.5 22

LOC classification:

HT601 .E44 2007

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Social history & the discursive move -- 3. A species of modernism -- 4. Materialism & disavowal : from the social to the cultural? -- 5. What is the valency of class now? -- 6.Conclusions.

Summary: "Unifying concepts are essential when studying history. They provide students and scholars with ways to organize their thoughts, research, and writings. However, these concepts are also the focus of myriad conflicts within the field. Social history has experienced more than its share of such conflicts since its inception some forty years ago. In recent times the fields of “the social” and of “culture” have sometimes been presented as mutually exclusive and even hostile. Once again, conceptual innovation in history has been cast as a closure by which the new drives out the old: in this case, cultural history radically displacing social history. "The Future of Class in History" analyzes the effect of the conflict that followed the “turn to culture” in historical work by examining the use of class and demonstrates how practitioners in multiple fields can collaborate to produce the highest quality scholarship." -- Cover.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	University of Macedonia Library Βιβλιοστάσιο Α (Stack Room A)	Main Collection	HT601.E44 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0013108030

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-252) and index.

"Unifying concepts are essential when studying history. They provide students and scholars with ways to organize their thoughts, research, and writings. However, these concepts are also the focus of myriad conflicts within the field. Social history has experienced more than its share of such conflicts since its inception some forty years ago. In recent times the fields of “the social” and of “culture” have sometimes been presented as mutually exclusive and even hostile. Once again, conceptual innovation in history has been cast as a closure by which the new drives out the old: in this case, cultural history radically displacing social history. "The Future of Class in History" analyzes the effect of the conflict that followed the “turn to culture” in historical work by examining the use of class and demonstrates how practitioners in multiple fields can collaborate to produce the highest quality scholarship." -- Cover.

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