Chesneaux, Jean  1922- <br/><br/>
Pasts and futures or What is history for? / 
By J. Chesneaux;foreword by Geoffrey Barraclough. 
 - London :  Thames and Hudson,  1978. 
 - X, 150 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Transl. of "Du passé faisons table rase?" 
<br/><br/>Index: p. 148-150. 
<br/><br/>Cont: 1.History as a dynamic relationship to the past. 2.History and social practice:in the Establishment camp. 3.History and social practice:on the side of the people's struggles. 4.Was Marx an 'historian'? 5.Reversing the past present relationship. 6.The false assumptions of historical rhetoric. 7.A sociological pocket-guide to historical knowledge. 8.The traps of quadripartition in history. 9.The historian's nostalgia for 'history in the grand style'. 10.Pre-capitalist societies:have they a common past?. 11.Capitalism:the great unifier of history. 12.National 'belongingness' in history. 13.Merging natural history and social history etc. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History