In The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm writes: In brief, the main shape of…all subsequent bourgeois revolutionary politics were by now clearly visible. This dramatic dialectical dance was to dominate the future generations. Time and again we shall see moderate middle class reformers mobilizing the masses against die-hard resistance or counter-revolution. We shall see the masses pushingContinue reading “The 2016 Elections, The ‘Bernie Revolution,’ And A Familiar Pattern”
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Academics And Their Secretaries
In the preface to The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 (Signet Classic, New York, 1962, p. xvi) Eric Hobsbawm writes: Miss P. Ralph helped considerably as secretary and research assistant Miss E. Mason compiled the index. In the preface to the new edition (1969) of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (University of Stanford Press, Cultural Memory in the PresentContinue reading “Academics And Their Secretaries”
Tourism and the Invented Tradition
Ian Johnson interviews Tian Qing (New York Review of Books Blog, April 6th, 2012), the head of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, “an institution set up by the government to protect China’s native traditions in the performing arts, cuisine, rituals, festivals, and other forms of culture” in an attempt to figure out whether these culturalContinue reading “Tourism and the Invented Tradition”
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