Crooked Lines

Sewell criticizes Geoff Eley's book A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society for underestimating the external forces--especially those related to the emergence of new forms of postwar capitalism--that, he argues, have to be understand in order to grasp the changes in the...

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Published in:The American historical review 2008-04, Vol.113 (2), p.393-405
Main Author: Sewell, William H.
Format: Article
Language:English
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AHR Forum: Geoff Eley's "A Crooked Line"
American literature
Capitalism
Cultural history
Eley, Geoff
Historical analysis
Historiography
Literary criticism
Marxian economics
Radicalism
Review articles
Social history
Social movements
Social structures
United States history
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Summary:Sewell criticizes Geoff Eley's book A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society for underestimating the external forces--especially those related to the emergence of new forms of postwar capitalism--that, he argues, have to be understand in order to grasp the changes in the approach to history over the period. Sewell warns that an attempt to recapture the totalizing ambitions that characterized social history will require more than the historiographical defiance that Eley advocates.
ISSN:0002-8762
1937-5239
DOI:10.1086/ahr.113.2.393