Books by Eric Hobsbawm

Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(323 reviews)

THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for... See More

Length: 559 Pages (1,473 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991

by Eric Hobsbawm (Abacus)

(345 reviews)

THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of the troubled twentieth century and makes challenging predicitions for the future. See More

Length: 981 Pages (11,780 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

On History

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(119 reviews)

The theory and practice of history and its relevance to the modern world, by Britains greatest radical historian. See More

Length: 399 Pages (686 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Primitive Rebels

by Eric Hobsbawm

(42 reviews)

Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants, Mafiosi, Spanish Civil War anarchy, pre-industrial mobs and riots - all of which have fed in to our notions of dissent in the modern world. Coining... See More

Length: 320 Pages (1,288 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

by Eric Hobsbawm (Little, Brown Book Group)

(90 reviews)

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 historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed, the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture... See More

Length: 319 Pages (750 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

by Eric Hobsbawm (Abacus)

(128 reviews)

In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism's most vigorous and... See More

Length: 478 Pages (822 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848 (History of Civilization)

by Eric Hobsbawm

(451 reviews)

The first in Eric Hobsbawm's dazzling trilogy on the history of the nineteenth century. Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed both by the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This 'Dual Revolution' created the modern world as we know it. Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every... See More

Length: 548 Pages (2,427 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

On Nationalism

by Eric Hobsbawm (Little, Brown Book Group)

(31 reviews)

I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists... but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising tide of nationalist parties. In this collection of historian Eric Hobsbawm's writing on... See More

Length: 389 Pages (1,123 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics)

by Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge University Press)

(144 reviews)

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial... See More

Length: 329 Pages (913 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm (Verso)

(9 reviews)

Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done as ye ought - Swing In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance... See More

Length: 539 Pages (44,185 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Cómo cambiar el mundo: Marx y el marxismo 1840-2011 (Memoria Crítica) (Spanish Edition)

by Eric Hobsbawm (Editorial Crítica)

(16 reviews)

El libro, que comienza con un estudio sobre "Marx hoy" y acaba con otro sobre la relación, a lo largo del tiempo, entre Marx y el movimiento obrero organizado, cuya conclusión es que, ante los problemas de la economía en el siglo XXI, "ha llegado de nuevo el tiempo de tomar a Marx en serio", nos ofrece una primera parte con una serie de trabajos sobre Marx y Engels, sobre sus obras y sus ideas... See More

Length: 871 Pages (1,930 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(25 reviews)

A 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. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social protest - the formation of the British working class, labour custom and traditions, the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, male... See More

Length: 476 Pages (823 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Revolutionaries

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(30 reviews)

A collection of essays which represent a lifetime's writing,lectures & thoughts on revolutionary modern political developments throughout Europe. See More

Length: 288 Pages (1,618 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Bandits

by Eric Hobsbawm

(56 reviews)

A trailblazing study of the social bandit or rebel 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 justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and... See More

Length: 241 Pages (53 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 (History of Civilization)

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(326 reviews)

A magisterial account of the rise of capitalism Eric Hobsbawm's magnificent treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 is a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after... See More

Length: 503 Pages (1,422 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America

by Eric Hobsbawm (Little, Brown Book Group)

(26 reviews)

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin... See More

Length: 480 Pages (1,692 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Worlds of Labour

by Eric Hobsbawm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

(5 reviews)

Worlds 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 movements they generated. The emphasis throughout the study is on the way labour organisations, policies and ideas were rooted in the everyday reality of working-class... See More

Length: 393 Pages (2,463 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

History, Culture and Ethnography: Jack Goody, Clifford James Geertz and Phillippe Descola (Creative Lives and Works)

by Alan Macfarlane

History, Culture and Ethnography: Jack Goody, Clifford Geertz and Philippe Descola is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the... See More

Length: 191 Pages (4,791 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled