| Place of Publication | London, England : |
| Publisher's Name | Routledge & Kegan Paul, |
| Date of Publication | 1982 |
| Extent | x, 370p. |
| Other Details | bibliography, illustrations, indexed, notes, 11p. plates |
| Series Responsibility - Personal | Samuel, Raphael (editor) |
| Series Statement Title | History Workshop Series |
| Series Volume or Part | [6] |
| Item Descriptor | Inspired by the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm this has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationshp to political and religious belief |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include – preface/ Raphael Samuel and Gareth Stedman Jones; Ideologies and mentalities/ Michel Vovelle; The ideal in the real/ Maurice Godelier; The historiography of everyday life: - the personal and the political/ Alf Lüdtke; Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity/ Judith Herrin; Plebeian culture in the transition to capitalism/ Hans Medick; Pilgrims and progress in nineteenth-century England/ Deborah Valenze; Tennyson, King Arthur and imperialism/ Victor Kiernan; Hobsbawn and Jazz/ Tony Coe; Fourteenth-century preachers’ views of the poor - class or status group?/ Maria A Moisa; Science and magic in seventeenth-century England/ Christopher Hill; Determinism and environmentalism in socialist thought/ Logie Barrow; The diffusion of Marxism in Italy during the late nineteenth century/ Franco Andreucci; The peasant dream - Russia 1905-7/ Teodor Shanin; Druids and democrats - organic intellectuals and the first Welsh radicalism/ Gwyn A Williams; State formation, nationalism and political culture in nineteenth-century Germany/ Geoff Eley; The roots of Czech Stalinism/ Jacques Rupnik; The labour party and social democracy/ Raphel Samuel and Gareth Stedman Jones; and Bibliography of the writings of Eric Hobsbawm |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Communism and society
Europe - Social conditions
Culture and politics
Communism and history
Historiography |
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