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Fractured Times - Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed, the forces o ...Show more
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed the forces of ...Show more
Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the p ...Show more
Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate ? not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us ? in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the p ...Show more
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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. In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality ...Show more
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time.Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and l ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the risi ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising ...Show more
Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 mob ...Show more
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; rev ...Show more
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the influence of the Third World.