77 Reviews

REVIEWS Where is capitalism going? Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991, Michael Joseph, London, 1994. xii + 627 pp., £19.95 hb., 07181 33072. Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, Verso, London, 1994. 416 pp., £39.95 hb., £14.95 pb., 1 85984915 6 hb., 1 […]

Tom Bottomore, 1920-1992

problems. Nothing new or constructive was being said: criticisms of the idea [hat history has ended are attacks on an easy target. The last item on the list was the ‘world-wide power of the “phantom states” of the mafia and of the drug groups’. But Derrida was not moved to expand on the subject of […]

Cultural History Association, Self-Determination and Power, Realism and the Human Sciences Conference, 8-11 September 1989

CULTURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION For some years the Cultural History Group of Aberdeen University has held an annual cultural history conference in June, which brings together students and researchers from various countries around topics as widespread as the Scottish Enlightenment, the culture of revolution and the methods and import of cultural history itself. The atmosphere of […]