The Power of the past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

Abstract

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.