The Past and Present Society The Machine Breakers Author(s): E. J. Hobsbawm Source: Past amp; Present, No. 1 (Feb., 1952), pp. 57-70 Published by:

--> both of these will give you a solid understanding of the approaches themselves; “The Machine Breakers (Hobsbawm - Marxism)”; “Urban Society in the Orleanais (Lefebvre - TheAnnales School)” --> these two are examples of the interpretive approaches in action; or how historians would use them.

Below, I have attached the assigned readings. 

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