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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Eric Hobsbawm
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Description for Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Paperback. * Classic essays on the history of radical protest. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections previously unpublished in book form. Eric Hobsbawm's penetrating essays on labour history and social protest opened up a new field of study and set standards of wide-ranging, evocative, incisive analysis. Essays in this collection include the formation of the British working class; labour custom and traditions; the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers; male ... Read more
This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections previously unpublished in book form. Eric Hobsbawm's penetrating essays on labour history and social protest opened up a new field of study and set standards of wide-ranging, evocative, incisive analysis. Essays in this collection include the formation of the British working class; labour custom and traditions; the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers; male ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349112282
SKU
9780349112282
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99-1
About Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries. He is the well-known author of AGE OF REVOLUTION 1789-1848, THE AGE OF CAPITAL 1848-1875 etc
Reviews for Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
One of the outstanding historians of our age
Independent on Sunday
Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book.
OBSERVER
Demonstrating that it is possible to be both erudite and accessible, he turns his attention to the uncommon people of the 18th and 19th centuries... [Hobsbawm] provides a brilliant ... Read more
Independent on Sunday
Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book.
OBSERVER
Demonstrating that it is possible to be both erudite and accessible, he turns his attention to the uncommon people of the 18th and 19th centuries... [Hobsbawm] provides a brilliant ... Read more