Эрик Хобсбаум — библиография

Die Autobiografie »Gef?hrliche Zeiten« erg?nzt das »Zeitalter der Extreme«, ist sozusagen die B-Seite zu Hobsbawms globaler Geschichte: Es ist der eindrucksvolle Lebensbericht eines gro?en Gelehrten, der in diesem Buch Rechenschaft ablegt ?ber sein pers?nliches 20. Jahrhundert vor dem Hintergrund der Zeitgeschichte. Meisterhaft erz?hlt!

Hobsbawms 1995 erstmals auf Deutsch erschienenes Werk »Das Zeitalter der Extreme« ist l?ngst ein moderner Klassiker, der Titel zur Chiffre f?r das 20. Jahrhundert geworden. Erz?hlt wird darin die Geschichte des »Kurzen 20. Jahrhunderts« von 1914 bis 1991 – aus der Sicht des marxistischen Historikers, der zugleich teilnehmender Beobachter dieses 20. Jahrhunderts war.

The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians. In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside,…

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.

Eric Hobsbawm's AGE OF EXTREMES was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back over the…

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…

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 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…