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The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991

Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm’s personal vision of the twentieth century.

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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great

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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm’s brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great

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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914

Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great

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On History

Eric Hobsbawm

*A great historian tells the inside story of how history is recorded.

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On Nationalism

Eric Hobsbawm

An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm’s writing on the subject of nationalism.

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The Jazz Scene

Eric Hobsbawm

From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym ‘Francis Newton’ and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering…

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Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Sir Richard J. Evans

The first biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected and accomplished historians.

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Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Regius Professor of History Richard J Evans (Cambridge University)

First published in Great Britain by Little, Brown.

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The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

In this book a distinguished group of historians focuses on this dialectal relationship between capitalism and its pre-capitalist heritage. A number of different themes in modern European history are discussed…

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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm

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…

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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-century Life

Eric Hobsbawm

*The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time

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How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

Eric Hobsbawm

A penetrating reassessment of Marxist thought and its relevance today, by a world-renowned historian of Marxism

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Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study explores the perception of the French Revolution over the past two centuries. He considers how and why different generations and political factions have recounted it…

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Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

A stimulating examination of how the same events have been reimagined by different generations and factions to serve various political agendas. It will give readers a new appreciation for how…

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The New Century: In Conversation with Antonio Polito

Eric Hobsbawm

The New Century continues Hobsbawm’s analysis of our twentieth century, asking questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back…

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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

Eric Hobsbawm

*The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time

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Revolutionaries

Eric Hobsbawm

* Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara that could be key to a deeper understanding of today’s current affairs

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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm

Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original…

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Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm

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…

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How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

Eric Hobsbawm

* Brilliant and incisive, HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD leaves us in no doubt that Karl Marx is as much a thinker for our century as he was for the…

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Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

Eric Hobsbawm

Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm’s magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years’ writing about the continent.

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Primitive Rebels

Eric Hobsbawm

Reissued with a new introduction by Owen Jones, Primitive Rebels is the perfect guide to the revolutions that shaped western civilisation, and the bandits, reformers and anarchists who have fought…

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The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance…

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Bandits

Eric Hobsbawm

BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social…

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Globalisation, Democracy And Terrorism

Eric Hobsbawm

An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain’s foremost political historians.

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On Nationalism

Eric Hobsbawm

An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm’s writing on the subject of nationalism.

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Sobre El Nacionalismo

Eric Hobsbawm

Edicion a cargo de Donald Sassoon

Sigo estando en la curiosa posicion de rechazar, desconfiar, desaprobar y temer al nacionalismo alla donde exista … si bien reconozco su enorme fuerza…

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An Analysis of Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848

Tom Stammers,Patrick Glen

In The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm focuses on the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. He argues that the dual revolutions of the time -the French Revolution and…

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Worlds of Labour

Prof Eric Hobsbawm

A landmark study in the history of working class labour organisations, WORLDS OF LABOUR is a sequel to the author’s widely acclaimed LABOURING MEN.

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Labouring Men

Prof Eric Hobsbawm

A study into the history of working class labour organisations and their effectiveness, by one of the great Marxist historians of the 20th century

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Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals): Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to…

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Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals): Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to…

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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm,Eric Hobsbawm (Birkbeck College, University of London)

An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians.

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Of Poverty and Wealth: Eric Hobsbawm, Barry Supple and Gareth Stedman Jones

Alan Macfarlane

Of Poverty and Wealth is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on three pre-eminent economic historians…

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Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study explores the perception of the French Revolution over the past two centuries. He considers how and why different generations and political factions have recounted it…

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Captain Swing

Eric Hobsbawm,George Rude

The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians.

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