On history / by Eric Hobsbawm

Includes notes and index.

Outside and inside history -- The sense of the past -- What can history tell us about contemporary society -- Looking forward: history and the future -- Has history made progress -- From social history to the history of society -- Historians and economists: I -- Historians and economists: II -- Partisanship -- What does historians owe to Karl Marx? -- Marx and history -- All peoples have a history -- British history and the Annales: a note -- On the revival of narrative -- Postmodernism in the forest -- On history from below -- The curious history of Europe -- The present as history -- Can we write the history of the Russian revolution -- Barbarism: a user's guide -- Identity history is not enough