The Social Circulation of the Past English Historical Culture 1500-1730

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ISBN: 9780199257782 | 0199257787
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Copyright: 6/12/2003

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Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge.

A Note on Conventions

xiii

List of Figures

xiv

List of Abbreviations

xvi

Introduction

(18)

Part I. The Past and the Present

1. Consciousness of Change

(25)

2. Old and New

(29)

Part II. The Ancestral Past

3. The Cultivation of Heredity

(26)

4. The Genealogical Imagination

(42)

Part III. The Tangible Past

5. Varieties of Antiquarianism

141

(42)

6. Seeing the Past

183

(38)

7. The Archaeological Economy

221

(38)

Part IV. The Past Remembered

8. Ways of Remembering

259

(133)

9. Popular Beliefs about the Past 300

10. Oral Tradition 352

Conclusion

392

(9)

Index

401

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User's Manual for Prometheus Revisited: Enlarging the Globalization Debate

Preface: The Double Wall before the Future

Introduction: The Other Prometheus

Shelley's Romantic Prometheanism

The Dual Character of Promethean Modernity

Part I. The Rise and Decline of the Modern Prometheus

(82)

Chapter One. The Nationalist Face of Prometheus

(24)

Strategies of Liberal Capitalism

Illusions of Nationalism

Components of the Nationalist Apocalypse

Chapter Two. Socialism, the Welfare State, and the Heritage of the Left: Solutions Swallowed Up by the Problem

(28)

Promethean Modernity and Scientific Enlightenment

Origins of the Modern Left

From Arcadian Dreams to socialist Prometheanism

Anatomy of Defeat

Downsizing, the "End of Work," and Job Export

Neoliberalism, Social Dumping, and the Demise of Homo faber

The Twilight of the European Left

Chapter Three. Consumer Paradise: Another Failed Theodicy

(28)

The Consumer as Promethean Hero

Critics of Consumption

Consumer Society as Carnival

Carnivalesque Transgression or social Integration?

Oil, Growth, and Unsustainability

Part 11. Prometheus Redeemed

119

(114)

Chapter Four. Theoretical Interlude: The Question of Needs and Nature

121

(32)

Ideals of Consumption and Production

Psycho-anthropological Summary

Schachtel's Theory

Chapter Five. The Gathering Global Revolt against Corporate Capitalism

153

(49)

Preliminary Note

Movements of Resistance

The French Case

Seattle and the Emergence of a New International Opposition

The Significance of the New Social Movements

Chapter Six. Another World Is Possible

202

(31)

Prometheus or Pandora?

Sustainable Democracies in a Noncapitalist Global Economy

Problems

The Historical Foundations of Social Justice

Conclusion: Against Despair

233

(8)

Postscript: Notes from a Hijacked Planet

241

(8)

Notes

249

(46)

Bibliography

295

(12)

Index

307

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