HOBSBAWM J. ERIC

Η ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΩΝ, 1875-1914 (ΣΚΛΗΡΟΔΕΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
"Η ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΩΝ βρίθει από αντιφάσεις. Ήταν μια εποχή πρωτόγνωρης ειρήνης στον δυτικό κόσμο, η οποία προκάλεσε μια εποχή εξίσου πρωτόγνωρων παγκόσμιων πολέμων. Ήταν μια εποχή, παρά τα φαινόμενα, αύξουσας κοινωνικής σταθερότητας μέσα στη ζώνη των ανεπτυγμένων βιομηχανικών οικονομιών, από την οποία προήλθαν οι μικρές ομάδες ανδρών που κατάφεραν, με σχεδόν αλαζονική άνεση, να κατακτήσουν και να κυβερνήσουν τεράστιες αυτοκρατορίες ταυτόχρονα όμως αυτός ο ανεπτυγμένος βιομηχανικά κόσμος δημιούργησε αναπόδραστα στην περιφέρειά του τι...
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Η ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΡΛ ΜΑΡΞ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ
Ο 19ος αιώνας, ο αιώνας του αστικού πολιτισμού, είχε πολλές και σπουδαίες πνευματικές επιτυχίες, αλλά η πανεπιστημιακή ιστορική επιστήμη, που τότε ακριβώς αναπτύχθηκε, δεν συμπεριλαμβάνεται σ' αυτές. Πραγματικά, σημειώνεται μια οπισθοχώρηση σ' όλους τους τομείς -εκτός από τις τεχνικές της έρευνας- συγκριτικά με τις, συχνά κακοτεκμηριωμένες, θεωρησιακές και εξαιρετικά γενικευτικές μελέτες, με τις οποίες, όσοι έζησαν την πιο ριζικά επαναστατική εποχή, τον αιώνα της γαλλικής και της βιομηχανικής επανάστασης, επιχειρούσαν να κατανοήσουν τις με...
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(P/B) INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE
This 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 underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ON NATIONALISM
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 nationalism, we see some of the critical historical insights he brings to bear on this contentious subject, which is more than ever relevant as we stand on the doorstep of an age when the internet and the globalisation of capital threaten to blow away many national boundaries while, as a reaction, nationalism seems to re-emerge with renewed strength. More th...
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(P/B) REVOLUTIONARIES
Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long-standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary movements and ideas that dominated the twentieth century, and which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. The essays here explore a broad range of related topics including the history of communism, the influence of marxism, insurrection, military coups and guerrilla warfare, and the role of in...
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(P/B) VIVA LA REVOLUCION
Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the continent. 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 America. After the triumph o...
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(P/B) THE JAZZ SCENE
From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This 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 th...
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(P/B) PRIMITIVE REBELS
Reissued with a new introduction by Owen Jones, Primitive Rebels is the perfect guide to the revolutions that shaped western civilisation, and the bandits, reformers and anarchists who have fought to change the world. 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 wh...
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(P/B) HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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 eloquent enemy has never been more timely. Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and a...
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(P/B) FRACTURED TIMES
An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians. 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 fin-de-siecle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater,...
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ΣΥΝΑΡΠΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ
ΟΣΟΙ ΓΡΑΦΟΥΝ ΑΥΤΟΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΕΣ, πρέπει και να διαβάζουν αυτοβιογραφίες. Γράφοντας αυτό το βιβλίο, έμεινα έκπληκτος καθώς διαπίστωσα πόσοι πολλοί από τους γνωστούς μου, άνδρες και γυναίκες, έχουν εκδώσει βιογραφίες, για να μην αναφέρω τις (συνήθως) πιο επιφανείς και σκανδαλώδεις, που έχουν γραφτεί από άλλους. Και χωρίς να λάβω καν υπόψη μου το σημαντικό αριθμό από αυτοβιογραφίες που γράφουν οι συγκαιρινοί μου προβάλλοντάς τες ως μυθιστορήματα. Ίσως να είναι αδικαιολόγητη η έκπληξή μου. Τα άτομα που το επάγγελμά τους συνεπάγεται το να γράφουν κ...
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(P/B) BANDITS
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 preserved in story and myth. Bandits sets the historical figures against the ballads, legends and films they hane inspired. This substantially extended and revised new edition appears at a time whe...
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(P/B) GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM
An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians. In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism. As we are only too aware, all of these have the power to affect our daily...
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(P/B) INTERESTING TIMES
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century from Hitler's rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. ...
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(P/B) ON HISTORY
In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. They deal, among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian's responsibilities; with the history of society and 'history from below'; with Marx and current historical trends or fashions; with Eur...
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(P/B) NATIONS AND NATIONALISM SINCE 1780
Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of the political evolution and upheaval. This 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. Also included are additional maps to illustrate nationalities, ...
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(P/B) UNCOMMON PEOPLE
This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections previously unpublished in book form. Eric Hobsbawm's penetrating essays on labour history and social protest opened up a new field of study and set standards of wide-ranging, evocative, incisive analysis. Essays in this collection include the formation of the British w...
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Η ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΝ, 1789-1848 (ΣΚΛΗΡΟΔΕΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Τα εξήντα χρόνια ανάμεσα στο 1789, όταν ακόμα βασίλευε ο Λουδοβίκος ις', και το 1848, όταν ο Μαρξ και ο Ένγκελς δημοσίευσαν το Κομμουνιστικό Μανιφέστο, υπήρξαν για την Ευρώπη η περίοδος μιας διττής επανάστασης, η οποία προκάλεσε τον μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό μετασχηματισμό που υπέστη ο κόσμος μετά τους αρχαίους χρόνους. Το βιβλίο αυτό αναλύει και ερμηνεύει τις εκπληκτικές αλλαγές που προκάλεσαν η πολιτική Γαλλική Επανάσταση και η αγγλική Βιομηχανική Επανάσταση: τα "παλαιά καθεστώτα" καταρρέουν μπροστά στη δύναμη των νέων καπιταλιστικών χωρών. Ν...
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(P/B) LABOURING MEN
A study into the history of working class labour organisations and their effectiveness, by one of the great Marxist historians of the 20th century. The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of Socialism in Britain; and more general topics covering a wider chronological span. The common factor in this wide-ranging work is that, unlike much ot...
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(H/B) FRACTURED TIMES
Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, 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 fin-de-siecle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation and...
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