First published in 1969, this now-classic book inspired a whole new field of historical study and brought its author popular acclaim. Bandits transcend the label of criminals; they are robbers and outlaws elevated to the status of avengers and champions of social justice. Some, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy, and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world, the stuff of story and myth. Others, like Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits, and Brazilian congaceiros, are known only to their own countrymen. In his celebrated study of these fascinating figures, Eric Hobsbawm, "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic), spans four hundred years and four continents, setting these historical figures against the ballads, legends, and films they have inspired. The result is "a dazzling historical squib, fizzling with ideas and strange stories" (The Guardian). For this new edition Hobsbawm has substantially extended and revised his original text. It appears at a time when the disintegration of state power is once again introducing fertile conditions for banditry to flourish in many parts of the world.

Bandits (Pelican Books)

E.J. HOBSBAWM

Self-Help

Penguin Books, Ltd.

LABOURING MEN. Studies in the history of labour

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Age of Empire 1875-1914

History

World

Orion Publishing Co

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.    Although it pulses with great events—failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression—The Age of Capital is most outstanding for its analyis of the trends that created the new order.  With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm indentifies this epoch's winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science, and religion.

'THE AGE OF CAPITAL, 1848-75 (AGE OF...)'

Business & Money

Economics

Ideology in social science;: Readings in critical social theory

Politics & Social Sciences

David Goddard

Maurice Godelier

Tom Nairn

Ralph Miliband

Lucio Colletti

NORMAN GERAS

C.B. MacPherson

Edward Nell

Sociology

Pantheon Books

5 7/8"x8 5/8" 278 page hardcpver published by Pantheon in Books in 1973-First American Edition.

Revolutionaries; contemporary essays

Aspects of history and class consciousness,

Tom Bottomore

Arnold Hauser

LUCIEN GOLDMANN

david-daiches

Rudolf Schlesinger

Anthony Thorlby

Philosophy

Routledge

An account of English rural life in the opening decades of the last century.

Captain Swing

George Rudé

Lawrence and Wishart

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