Revolutionaries

Hobsbawm, E. J.

ISBN 10: 0297765493 / ISBN 13: 9780297765493

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

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1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book in near fine condition with no inscriptions, jacket with some edgwear annd a couple of tears . Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1566738323685

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revolutionaries
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297765493
• ISBN 13: 9780297765493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Back in print, groundbreaking essays from "the best known living historian in the world" ( The Times , London). "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.