Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author . Pantheon $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-375-42234-8
"The past is another country, but it has left its mark on those who once lived there," writes noted historian Hobsbawm in this lyrical, pungent and provocative memoir. Known for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hobsbawm examines
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author . Pantheon $19.95 (97p) ISBN 978-0-375-42537-0
In this collection of essays, the British historian denounces globalism’s increasing economic inequalities, which in classic Marxist form, he claims burdenthose who benefit least. Not surprisingly, Hobsbawm expects developing political resistance...
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author Vintage Books USA $18 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-72175-8
In this sequel to The Age of Capital , the author ``probes the contradictions of a largely tranquil age that stood on the brink of global slaughter. Hobsbawm's delvings possess a breadth and depth that few historians have equaled, and this wide-rangi
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author Pantheon Books $30 (627p) ISBN 978-0-394-58575-8
In a vivid chronicle bristling with unorthodox views and fresh insights, British historian Hobsbawm divides the period from the outbreak of WWI to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. into three phases. The ``Age of Catastrophe'' (1914-47), marked by two...
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author Pantheon Books $25 (392p) ISBN 978-0-679-40633-4
English historian Hobsbawn ( The Age of Empire ) started writing about jazz for the New Statesman in the 1950s under the pseudonym Francis Newton, and most of the essays in this volume were originally published in the U.S. between 1959 and 1961. The
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author New Press $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56584-393-6
Hobsbawm, now 80 and among the most distinguished of living historians, reprints 21 of his essays and lectures that are frankly Marxist in background and seemingly sermons for the dwindling brethren. Still, there is a challenging if bleak wisdom in...
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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Author, Eric J. Hobsbawm, Preface by New Press $27.5 (360p) ISBN 978-1-56584-466-7
These 26 essays reveal the intellectual girders the late historian used in four decades of publishing social and political analyses in support of common, working people. He shows a sometimes puckish appetite for shattering facile definitions with...
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