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The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social?
Geoff Eley
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Description for The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social?
Paperback. Analyses the conflict that followed historians' "cultural turn" by examining the use of class, and demonstrates how practitioners in multiple, sometimes conflicting fields can work collaboratively to produce the highest quality scholarship. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
Unifying concepts are essential to the study of history, enabling students and scholars to organize their ideas, research and writing. However, such concepts are also the focus of ongoing, sometimes heated, conflict. In recent times social and cultural history have sometimes been presented as mutually exclusive. Once again, conceptual innovation in history has been cast as a closure in which the new drives out the old: in this case, cultural history radically displaces social history. But esteemed historians and theorists Geoff Eley and Keith Nield suggest ways to break through the logjam, by combining the post-structuralist critique of knowledge with certain registers of structuralist argument. The Future of Class in History analyses the conflict that followed historians' cultural turn by examining the use of class, and demonstrates how practitioners in multiple, sometimes conflicting fields can work collaboratively to produce the highest quality scholarship.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472069644
SKU
V9780472069644
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About Geoff Eley
Geoff Eley is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Keith Nield is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Hull.
Reviews for The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social?
Eley and Nield seek to rescue the deluded follower of social history from the enormous condescension of the cultural turn. They succeed admirably, making the case for a new hybrid socio-cultural history.
Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(09/29/2006) Eley and Neild tackle a contentious debate with a gracious plea for collaboration. Their strong desire to get past the 'culture wars' and to engage social and cultural historians in fruitful dialogue is a welcome move, stylishly executed.
Philippa Levine, University of Southern California
(09/21/2006) The Future of Class in History provides a valuable critical overview of the major debates that have been polarizing the field of History over the last several decades. And it offers important ways of moving beyond those polarities, with new ways of thinking about class and society in a world in which such categories have been radically called into question.
Sherry Ortner, UCLA
(09/18/2006) Much more than a book about the problematic of class, this timely meditation upon the history and politics of the move from social to cultural history will provoke and inspire debate. It is essential reading for all those interested in putting the social back into the analytical frame.
James Vernon, University of California at Berkeley
(09/18/2006) Brilliantly charts social history's past achievement, present dilemma, and future promise in a work distinguished by intellectual openness and generosity.
James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University
(08/29/2006)
Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(09/29/2006) Eley and Neild tackle a contentious debate with a gracious plea for collaboration. Their strong desire to get past the 'culture wars' and to engage social and cultural historians in fruitful dialogue is a welcome move, stylishly executed.
Philippa Levine, University of Southern California
(09/21/2006) The Future of Class in History provides a valuable critical overview of the major debates that have been polarizing the field of History over the last several decades. And it offers important ways of moving beyond those polarities, with new ways of thinking about class and society in a world in which such categories have been radically called into question.
Sherry Ortner, UCLA
(09/18/2006) Much more than a book about the problematic of class, this timely meditation upon the history and politics of the move from social to cultural history will provoke and inspire debate. It is essential reading for all those interested in putting the social back into the analytical frame.
James Vernon, University of California at Berkeley
(09/18/2006) Brilliantly charts social history's past achievement, present dilemma, and future promise in a work distinguished by intellectual openness and generosity.
James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University
(08/29/2006)