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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875ISBN 0297769928 (0-297-76992-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Age of Empire, 1875-1914ISBN 0349105987 (0-349-10598-7)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848by E.J. HobsbawmISBN 0349116903 (0-349-11690-3)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848'Book summary:His books are surrealistic, deeply irreverent and bitingly satirical. His characters may be larger than life, but are always rendered with total plausibility, however outrageous their actions. And the body count of his books is high--the world of Christopher Brookmyre's fiction is as dangerous as it is blackly comic. But is he a crime writer? A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away is another massive phantasmagoria, written with the author's customary caustic wit--and there's a character in it (a fast-living, highly successful assassin) who could have strayed in from a thriller. But such impressions never last for long--Brookmyre belongs to no genre, and this book is as uncategorisable as such previous epics as Boiling a Frog and the splendidly biting Quite Ugly One Morning.
In A Big Boy Did It... , his beleaguered hero Raymond Ash is struggling with the banal reality of his life as an English teacher and lamenting the evaporation of his student dreams. Responsibility isn't pleasant, Raymond has found. He takes refuge in a sad virtual existence, his online doodling substituting for real life. And then he encounters an old friend, whom he thought dead. Simon has achieved success in rock star-like terms: massive financial rewards, global travel, even notoriety. But his route has been that of the professional killer, and at that trade he's top of the tree. Raymond is seduced by the excitement of time spent with his old pal, even though he's reluctant to get involved with him again. But get involved he does, and soon every aspect of his life is under threat, with Ray yearning for the pretend violence of a computer game over the messy reality he's catapulted himself into.
Brookmyre sees terrorists and killers such as Simon as being self-deluded; whatever reasons they think they're performing their ruthless activities for (religion, a cause, money), they're really on a sad power trip, sublimating their craving for mass acclaim into violence. But he's never solemn--no diatribes here, unlike the organised religion he has so much distaste for. Brookmyre is adept at pulling the rug from beneath the reader's feet (Simon is attractive, until we get to know him better). The writing is always sharp, always funny, always innovative.--Barry Forshaw [via]
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- The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848: ISBN 0349116954 (0-349-11695-4)
Softcover, Abacus - The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848: ISBN 0351167323 (0-351-16732-3)
Softcover, Business & Technician Education Council - Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848: ISBN 0349116903 (0-349-11690-3)
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- The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848: ISBN 0349116954 (0-349-11695-4)
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The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848by E.J. HobsbawmISBN 0349104840 (0-349-10484-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848'Book summary:Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for half a century. [via]
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Banditsby E.J. HobsbawmISBN 0140214747 (0-14-021474-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Captain Swingby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0140551530 (0-14-055153-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Swing'Book summary:Nice and simple mazes for the youngest solvers! Big and loopy, with wide-open paths that small children (with uncertain penmanship) can easily navigate with their crayon or colored pencil, these are "starter mazes" kids will find fun to follow. Each design has friendly, familiar objects, like flowers and cars and a shining sun-perfect for coloring in after the child finishes the maze.[via]
Historical Studies Todayby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0393054535 (0-393-05453-5)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton
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Industry and Empireby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0140257888 (0-14-025788-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Industry and Empire : From 1750 to the Present Day'Book summary: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. [via]
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Lifeby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 037542234X (0-375-42234-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life'Book summary:Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawms The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures. Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible short century which is the subject of Age of Extremes, his most widely read book, Hobsbawm has, for eighty-five years, been committed to understanding the interesting times through which he has lived.
Hitler came to power as Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He was a member of the Apostles at Kings College, Cambridge, took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, and demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms in Trafalgar Square. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest and an evening at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is probably the only Marxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar.
Hobsbawm takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India and the Far East. With Interesting Times, we see the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants, the incisiveness of whose views we cannot afford to ignore in a world in which history has come to be increasingly forgotten. [via]More editions of Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life:
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Invention of Traditionby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0521269857 (0-521-26985-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invention of Tradition'Book summary: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 comparative recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh 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. [via]
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Living As Equalsby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0198295189 (0-19-829518-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living As Equals'Book summary:This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it.
* Amartya Sen offers an overview of how equality can be furthered by public action.
* A. B. Atkinson proposes an official poverty line in Britain as a way to focus public debate and political action.
* E. J. Hobsbawm explores the tensions within the rival demands of language, nation, and culture.
* Dorothy Wedderburn argues the case for the superiority of public action in relation to the National Health Service.
* Albert O. Hirschman scrutinizes the rhetorical devices used to counter proposals for reform.
* Ronald Dworkin demonstrates that liberty and equality are not, as some argue, in conflict.
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Realityby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0521335078 (0-521-33507-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Peasants in Historyby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0195612159 (0-19-561215-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Revolutionariesby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0349120560 (0-349-12056-0)
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Revolutionaries; Contemporary Essaysby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0297765493 (0-297-76549-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Workers: Worlds of Laborby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0394543009 (0-394-54300-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labourby E.J. Hobsbawm , George RudeISBN 0297785230 (0-297-78523-0)
Softcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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