History after Hobsbawm: writing the past for the Twenty-First Century
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1052
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198768784
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- History after Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the world in a discussion of the key questions that characterise our discipline. Rueger was one of the three historians who led the team organising the large international conference ‘History after Hobsbawm’, held at Senate House in 2014. The conference was testament to how much interest and engagement persists in the late Eric Hobsbawm’s legacy, and how much the broader issues of making history matter to wider debates still inspire the profession. This volume arises out of that conference. Rueger did a large part of the editing, including the setting of the book’s themes, the selection of papers (roughly half of those presented at the conference), the communication with authors as well as peer reviewers and the editors at OUP. Rueger co-wrote the introduction (which was discussed amongst the editors as well as with contributors) and also contributed a chapter of his own. He played a crucial role in ensuring that the book was neither simply a collection of conference papers, nor still less a posthumous festschrift. Instead, History after Hobsbawm takes the opportunity afforded by the collective efforts begun at the conference to present important reflections on our profession, as grouped around Hobsbawm’s capacious interests, with the aim to provide a series of interventions that argue the case for the urgency and importance of a politically-engaged history in the post-imperial, globalized, climate-endangered world we live in. We are asking for Rueger’s individual article to be assessed alongside his overall editorial work.
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- Non-English
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