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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
E. J. HobsbawmHobsbawm's classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.
Años interesantes: una vida en el siglo XX
E. J. HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm es, en palabras de Orlando Figes, «el historiador vivo más conocido del mundo».
Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848
Eric HobsbawmThe first in Eric Hobsbawm's dazzling trilogy on the history of the nineteenth century.
How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and analyses the spectacular reversal of Marxism's fortunes over the past thirty years.
The Jazz Scene
Eric HobsbawmThis enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century ...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Eric HobsbawmIn Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve and consummate imagination and skill, unpicks a century of such fragmentation, in the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.
Sobre la historia
E. J. HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm, uno de los mejores historiadores de nuestro tiempo, reúne en este libro sus reflexiones sobre la historia y sobre su significado para el hombre de hoy, partiendo del estudio de temas muy diversos, pero siempre de interés: ...
The French Revolution
E. J. HobsbawmThe events of 1789 form one of the defining moments in European history,here analysed by the country's most eminent historian.
Revolutionaries
Eric HobsbawmA collection of essays which represent a lifetime's writing,lectures & thoughts on revolutionary modern political developments throughout Europe.
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
E. J. HobsbawmThis second edition has been updated in light of those events, with a final chapter addressing the impact of the dramatic changes that have taken place.
The Invention of Tradition
Eric HobsbawmThis book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
Bandits
Eric HobsbawmSome are only know to their fellow countrymen; others such as Rob Roy, Robin Hood and Jesse James are famous throughout the world. First published in 1969, BANDITS inspired a new field of historical study: bandit history.
Reimagining The Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of ...
Jim Mac LaughlinThis book assesses competing modes of nation-building and nationalism through a critical reappraisal of the works of key theorists such as Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm.
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
Eric J. HobsbawmIt is about Queen Victoria, Madame Curie and the Kodak Girl, and the novel social world of cloth caps, golf clubs and brassieres, about Nietzsche, Carnegie, William Morris and Dreyfus, about politically ineffective terrorists, one of whom, ...
Worlds of Labour
Eric HobsbawmWorlds of Labour is a series of studies that considers the formation and evolution of working classes in the period between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth, scrutinising their 'consciousness', ways of life and the ...
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day
E J HobsbawmThis outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the ...
Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World ...
Tibor Iván Berend"Like Eric Hobsbawm's masterful histories of economic, social, and cultural change in Europe, Berend's book covers a vast variety of changes, and convincingly shows that they were all related.
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
Stuart HallHobsbawm, Labouring Men, p. 272; see also J. Foster, Class Struggle and Industrial Revolution (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975). Quoted in Lenin, ' Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism', p. 247. P. Worsley, 'Fanon and the ...
Uncommon People
Eric HobsbawmA fascinating collection of essays concerning working men and women. These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day.
Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies
Maya ShatzmillerNOTES 1 See Juan Cole, "The Modernity of Theocracy." 2 For a discussion of Baha'i theocrats, see Juan Cole, "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community." 3 Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalisms since 1780.
The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, ...
PreviewEric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (Cambridge, 1983). 40. Munich, Queen Victoria's Secrets. 41. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich, Introduction in Remaking Queen Victoria, eds. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich ( Cambridge, ...
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