Visions Of History
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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What does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters, the streets of resistance? Visions of History answers that question through a series of frank, intellectually charged interviews with thirteen of the twentieth century's most radical and influential historians, including E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Sheila Rowbotham, C.L.R. James, and Natalie Zemon Davis. Assembled by MARHO (the Radical Historians Organization), this landmark collection captures these thinkers at the height of their powers, discussing their methods, motivations, and the political convictions that shaped their scholarship — offering a rare, unfiltered window into how history is made. Spanning labour history, feminist scholarship, African-American studies, and Marxist historiography, the volume presents a vivid portrait of a generation of historians who believed that the past was a battleground for the present. Each voice carries a distinct urgency — Thompson's passionate humanism, Hobsbawm's structural sweep, Davis's meticulous cultural imagination — yet together they form a chorus arguing that history must serve justice. Visions of History remains an essential text for anyone who wishes to understand not just what these giants wrote, but why they wrote it — and what drove them to rewrite the world.
Author: Marho: The Radical Historians Organization
Format: Paperback
Published: 1983, Pantheon Books
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters, the streets of resistance? Visions of History answers that question through a series of frank, intellectually charged interviews with thirteen of the twentieth century's most radical and influential historians, including E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Sheila Rowbotham, C.L.R. James, and Natalie Zemon Davis. Assembled by MARHO (the Radical Historians Organization), this landmark collection captures these thinkers at the height of their powers, discussing their methods, motivations, and the political convictions that shaped their scholarship — offering a rare, unfiltered window into how history is made. Spanning labour history, feminist scholarship, African-American studies, and Marxist historiography, the volume presents a vivid portrait of a generation of historians who believed that the past was a battleground for the present. Each voice carries a distinct urgency — Thompson's passionate humanism, Hobsbawm's structural sweep, Davis's meticulous cultural imagination — yet together they form a chorus arguing that history must serve justice. Visions of History remains an essential text for anyone who wishes to understand not just what these giants wrote, but why they wrote it — and what drove them to rewrite the world.