Preface
1 Outside and Inside History 1
2 The Sense of the Past 10
3 What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society? 24
4 Looking Forward: History and the Future 37
5 Has History Made Progress? 56
6 From Social History to the History of Society 71
7 Historians and Economists: I 94
8 Historians and Economists: II 109
9 Partisanship 124
10 What Do Historians Owe to Karl Marx? 141
11 Marx and History 157
12 All Peoples Have a History 171
13 British History and the Annales: A Note 178
14 On the Revival of Narrative 186
15 Postmodernism in the Forest 192
16 On History from Below 201
17 The Curious History of Europe 217
18 The Present as History 228
19 Can We Write the History of the Russian Revolution? 241
20 Barbarism: A User's Guide 253
21 Identity History Is Not Enough 266
Notes 278
Index 291