Uncommon People by Eric Hobsbawm
* Classic essays on the history of radical protest.
Quite billiant..because he assembles his arguments with knowledge ranging across both countries and centuries, they have a rare potency * Scotsman *
Eric Hobsbawn has become informally enthroned as Britain's leading historian...ge combines a novelist's narrative power with an unrivalled command of detail and source -- Neal Ascherson * 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 deconstruction of the popular idea that revolution and sexual freedom are intrinsically connected. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book. * OBSERVER *
One of the outstanding historians of our age * Independent on Sunday *
Eric Hobsbawn has become informally enthroned as Britain's leading historian...ge combines a novelist's narrative power with an unrivalled command of detail and source -- Neal Ascherson * 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 deconstruction of the popular idea that revolution and sexual freedom are intrinsically connected. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book. * OBSERVER *
One of the outstanding historians of our age * Independent on Sunday *
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349112282 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349112282 |
| Title | Uncommon People |
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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