Eric Hobsbawm Libri

La storia dell'Età degli imperi è quella del "mondo e della società del liberalismo borghese avanzante verso 'la strana morte'... che la coglie proprio quando essa raggiunge il suo apogeo, e a causa proprio delle contraddizioni insite in questa sua avanzata". Con uno stile espositivo intelligente, Hobsbawm accompagna il lettore alla scoperta di un mondo apparentemente lontano e lo rende consapevole delle profonde radici che legano quel mondo al nostro secolo breve. (Vittorio Vidotto)

The book explores the 20th century by dividing it into three distinct periods: the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Landslide. Hobsbawm utilizes extensive data to provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of these eras, highlighting their unique characteristics and impacts on modern history. This work stands alongside his renowned classics, offering readers a rich and vibrant understanding of the century's transformative events and trends.

Contains pages 53 to 76 of Chapter 3 from THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789-1848

A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. 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 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitve private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgeoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of �base� and �superstructure�, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present � historical consciousness � to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.

Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This "Dual Revolution" created the modern world as we know it. The book traces the transformation in European life during this period.

*The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time schovat popis

An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.

Hobsbawm's classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.

Brilliant and incisive, HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD leaves us in no doubt that Karl Marx is as much a thinker for our century as he was for the preceding two.

Available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition, "On History" presents key essays of history by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" ("New Republic").

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 ritual in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. This book addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historicans and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which possess new questions for the understanding of our history.

Describes 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.

First Vintage Books Edition, March 1973. Mild shelf wear, small tear at top of back cover, pages moderately tanned, and spine has creases from reading. Everything looks good and perfectly readable. Overall pretty decent condition.

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 of Fidel Castro in Cuba in January 1959, and even more after the defeat of the American attempt to overthrow him at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, 'there was not an intellectual in Europe or the USA', he wrote, 'who was not under the spell of Latin America, a continent apparently bubbling with the lava of social revolutions'. 'The Third World brought the hope of revolution back to the First in the 1960s'. The two great international inspirations were Cuba and Vietnam, 'triumphs not only of revolution, but of Davids against Goliaths, of the weak against the all- powerful'.

A fascinating study of the spectacular explots if robbers and outlaws from Robin Hood to Jesse James. schovat popis

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 last decade to learn something of the new era, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing. He goes on to analyse the crisis of the multi-ethnic state and shows the distortions of history involved in the creation of its myths. He expresses his anxiety over the system of international relations between states that have so far ruled by colonialism and nuclear terror. Hobsbawm then assesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment. Published this year in dozens of countries throughout the world, THE NEW CENTURY is a concise summary of the thinking of one of the pre-eminent historians.

“One of the few genuinely great historians of our century” according to the New Republic, Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark books—including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, Bandits, and The Age of Extremes—that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum.Now back in print after thirty years, Revolutionaries is vintage Hobsbawm, written masterfully amid one of the century’s most intense periods of political and social upheaval, putting those events in historical context. Few observers were as astute as Hobsbawm at probing, criticizing, and clarifying radical movements, whether in Beijing or Berkeley. Ranging from historical investigations into communism to contemporary appraisals of revolutionary movements and meditations on Marxism, Hobsbawm’s commentaries are essential guides to ideas and people that changed the face of the twentieth century.Hobsbawm’s essays retain a freshness that speaks both to his brilliance as a writer and scholar, as well as to the perennial importance of his subjects. At a time when the very concept of revolution has been largely discredited, these essays remind us of the enduring importance of radical investigations into—and solutions to—society’s persistent inequalities and injustices.

An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm's writing on the subject of nationalism.

The book features a series of interviews with renowned social and cultural anthropologists Jack Goody, Clifford Geertz, and Philippe Descola, offering insights into their influential thoughts and contributions to the field. Conducted by esteemed social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane, these conversations delve into their creative processes, key theories, and the impact of their work on understanding culture and society. This collection provides a unique perspective on the lives and intellectual journeys of three prominent figures in anthropology.

Čtivá a velmi fundovaně napsaná studie předního britského historika Erica Hobsbawma, u nás známého knihou Věk extrémů: krátké dějiny 20. století. Autor v ní přináší komplexní a poučný pohled na vývoj fenoménu nacionalismu od poloviny 19. století až do doby zcela nedávné, který dokumentuje řadou zajímavých konkrétních příkladů. 1.vydání.

Entretiens avec l'historien Antonio Polito quant à ses prédictions sur le 21e siècle et un retour sur les questions sur la fin du 20e siècle susceptible de l'influencer: guerre et paix, déclin de l'empire occidental, village planétaire, que reste-t-il de la gauche?, l'homo mundialis, la France, sa culture et ses intellectuels, la date du début du 21e siècle. [SDM].

Eric Hobsbawms dreibändiges Werk behandelt das "lange" 19. Jahrhundert, von der Französischen Revolution bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Er analysiert die gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche, den Aufstieg des Kapitalismus und die Ursachen des Krieges, und bietet eine neue Perspektive auf die Geschichte im sozialen und kulturellen Kontext. Ein Muss für Geschichtsinteressierte.

Šírenie hodnôt a inštitúcií možno sotva dosiahnuť náhlym uplatnením vonkajšej sily, ak preň nenastali lokálne podmienky, ktoré by ich prispôsobili a umožnili zaviesť. Demokracia a západné hodnoty spolu s ľudskými právami nie sú ako technické importy, ktorých úžitok je bezprostredne zrejmý a prijmú ich všetci, čo ich môžu uplatniť a dopriať si ich ako mierový bicykel a vražedný AK-47 či technické služby ako letiská. Keby nimi boli, mnohé európske, ázijské či africké štáty, ktoré by teoreticky fungovali s podobnými demokratickými ústavami (hoci v praxi to tak nie je), by sa politicky podobali. Slovom, v dejinách je len veľmi málo skratiek: o tom som sa vo svojom živote a pri premýšľaní o mnohých záležitostiach minulého storočia poučil, a nielen ja.

Para contener los libros de historia menos academicos y mas divulgativos nacio en 1997 esta coleccion que ha ido creciendo con extraordinaria rapidez, ya que en cinco anos se han publicado titulos que han alcanzado, en general, una extraordinaria difusion. Entre ellos, las tres famosas &la" eras de Hobsbawm: La era de la revolucion; La era del capital y La era del imperio, pero tambien libros tan destacados como Pensar historicamente, de Pierre Vilar, Sobre la historia, del propio Hobsbawm, Carlos V y su tiempo, de John Lynch, Historia economica de la Europa contemporanea, de Vera Zamagni, La historia de los hombres, de Josep Fontana o Espana en su cenit, de Jordi Nadal. Publicado en castellano por Ariel en 1968, y agotada su ultima edicion desde hacia tiempo, nos ha parecido que, ante los nuevos fenomenos de &la" protesta primitiva que surgen en toda Europa con la dificil integracion de los inmigrantes, es oportuno regresar a las ensenanzas de este libro sobre las formas arcaicas de los movimientos sociales en los siglos XIX y XX.

»Die große Stärke des Buches liegt in seiner Fähigkeit, Unvergleichbares zu vergleichen. So macht der Historiker Lust auf Geschichte.« Der Spiegel In seinen Aufsätzen versammelt Eric Hobsbawm Rebellen und Revolutionäre vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Es treten auf: wandernde Schuster, englische Industriearbeiter, peruanische Bauern, vietnamesische Guerillakämpfer, heute vergessene Verbrecher und unvergessene Größen des Jazz wie Count Basie oder Duke Ellington. Sie alle verbindet, dass sie – in unterschiedlichster Weise – gegen Ungerechtigkeit und widrige Umstände rebelliert, sich gegen die Macht zur Wehr gesetzt haben. Hobsbawm verdeutlicht die Konturen ihrer Weltbilder sowie ihren prägenden Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft und erweist sich einmal mehr als brillanter und anregender Kultur- und Sozialhistoriker.

Der Historiker Eric J. Hobsbawm, einer der großen Denker der Gegenwart, reflektiert präzise den Wandel der Kunst- und Kulturszene des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts angesichts der Möglichkeiten der technischen Reproduktion der Kunst und dessen gesellschaftliche Ursachen. Hobsbawms Überlegungen werden durch jene des Sozialhistorikers Hubert Christian Ehalt ergänzt, der den Bogen der Auseinandersetzung bis ins 21. Jahrhundert spannt, in dem ein Wandel in der Rolle des Künstlers, des Rezipienten und des Verständnisses darüber, was Kunst-Raum ist, stattfindet. Die Autoren beantworten die Frage, was heute noch als Kunst bezeichnet werden kann, beleuchten den Entwicklungsprozess des Kulturbegriffs im Spannungsfeld von Tradition und Traditionsbruch und werfen einen visionären Blick auf zukünftige Kulturbedürfnisse und -erwartungen.

Reportáže fotografů slavné skupiny Magnum z veřejných událostí revolučního roku 1968 všech tří světů. Doplněno texty Erica Habsbawma a Marca Weitzmanna.