Word: hobsbawm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over. Last weekend an international gathering of 150 historians and social scientists assembled at the State University of New York at Binghamton to pay homage to Braudel and his enduring love. English Scholars Peter Burke and Eric Hobsbawm arrived to offer tribute. Historians from Canada, The Netherlands and France sang Braudel's praises. The occasion: the inaugural conference of SUNY'S new Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations. It was the first major American recognition of French Historian Braudel-perhaps the most influential historian now at work and the author...
Over the past few decades a handful of historians, Rude, Thompson, Hobsbawm and some others have turned attention to the "people at the bottom." They do not treat working people, peasants, or the "lower classes" as a necessary and incumbent labor force or as the passive victims of prevailing policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray...
Again, maybe "call" or manifesto is closer to the mark than a full-fledged "attempt." But stammering and piecemeal as it is in comparison to the works of Hobsbawm or Thompson, Cox's book still manages to point out ways and directions for the creation of a new discipline. The phrase Cox uses is a "Theology of Liberation...