Commentaries: McCants
Mccants: It has now been more than a half century since the publication of Hobsbawm’s formulation of the seventeenth century as a time of crisis. Yet the historical questions that Hobsbawm raised, and the historiographical solution that he offered, retain their vitality despite the numerous fier...
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| author | McCants, Anne E. C. |
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| description | Mccants: It has now been more than a half century since the
publication of Hobsbawm’s formulation of the seventeenth century
as a time of crisis. Yet the historical questions that Hobsbawm
raised, and the historiographical solution that he offered,
retain their vitality despite the numerous fierce debates that they
have spawned during the intervening years. Unlike others before
him who had identified the various ills that befell Europeans who
lived at that time, he did not see the seventeenth century as merely
an age visited by the misfortune of numerous, but discrete, crises.
Rather, he argued that it was fundamentally, structurally, a moment
of crisis sui generis. Moreover, in keeping with his Marxist
intellectual foundations, he invested this crisis with a purpose, discarding
the lingering limitations (dare I say shackles?) of the old
feudal order and thereby opening a space for the industrial capitalism
that he understood to be the defining characteristic of the
modern economy. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/588152022-09-28T14:59:46Z Commentaries: McCants McCants, Anne E. C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section McCants, Anne E. C. McCants, Anne E. C. Mccants: It has now been more than a half century since the publication of Hobsbawm’s formulation of the seventeenth century as a time of crisis. Yet the historical questions that Hobsbawm raised, and the historiographical solution that he offered, retain their vitality despite the numerous fierce debates that they have spawned during the intervening years. Unlike others before him who had identified the various ills that befell Europeans who lived at that time, he did not see the seventeenth century as merely an age visited by the misfortune of numerous, but discrete, crises. Rather, he argued that it was fundamentally, structurally, a moment of crisis sui generis. Moreover, in keeping with his Marxist intellectual foundations, he invested this crisis with a purpose, discarding the lingering limitations (dare I say shackles?) of the old feudal order and thereby opening a space for the industrial capitalism that he understood to be the defining characteristic of the modern economy. 2010-10-01T14:56:28Z 2010-10-01T14:56:28Z 2009-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-1953 1530-9169 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58815 “McCants.” Commentaries in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40.2 (2009): 295-296. © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-827X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2009.40.2.295 Journal of Interdisciplinary History Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press |
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