The age of... series - Eric Hobsbawm
The four volumes of Eric Hobsbawm's 'Age of...' series, charting the ages of Revolution (1789-1848), Capital (1848-1875), Empire (1875-1914) and Extremes (1914-1991).
Birth of a Holiday: The First of May - Eric Hobsbawm
Submitted by Django on Jul 10 2009 15:15
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm's account of the international celebration of Mayday.
Socialism and the Avant-Garde, 1880-1914 - Eric Hobsbawm
Submitted by Django on Jul 10 2009 13:35
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm's account of the relationship between the prewar artistic avant-garde and the workers' movement of that period. Both converged in the late nineteenth century, diverged quite sharply in the first phase of radical 'modernism', but found each other again - at least for a few passionate years - under the impact of the Great War and the October Revolution.
The machine breakers - Eric Hobsbawm
Submitted by Django on Jul 4 2009 15:16
The purpose of this essay is clearly stated: to defend British labour movements against what E. P. Thompson was later to call 'the enormous condescension of posterity'; and, one might add, against ideologists of our own times. It was first published in 1952 in the first issue of a historical journal that had been recently founded by the author and a group of friends, and is still published, Past & Present
Cities and Insurrections - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm discusses the potential and limits of cities as sites of riot and insurrection.
