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9780300188202 | Yale Univ Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of the political evolution and upheaval...read more
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9780521335072 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Derived from the author's series of Wiles Lectures delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1985, this book attempts to trace the history of nations and nationalism over the last two centuries and tries to assess its changing historical nature and importance.

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9781107604629, titled "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality" | 2 reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism.
9780521439619, titled "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality" | 2 revised edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 1992), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant enquiry into the question of nationalism won further acclaim for his 'colossal stature .
9780521406789, titled "Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality" | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Few of the nations we recognize today date from before the 19th century.

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Product Description: The second biggest-selling book ever published.In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word “capitalism” itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But ...read more
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9781859848982 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, May 1, 1998), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program, with an introduction analyzing its significance to the realities of today and to Marx's own times

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9781844678761 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, April 4, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The second biggest-selling book ever published.

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Product Description: "We need to take account of Marx today," argues Eric Hobsbawm in this persuasive and highly readable book. The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and our current historical situation of free-market extremes suggests that reading Marx may be more important now than ever...read more
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9780300176162 | Yale Univ Pr, September 6, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: "We need to take account of Marx today," argues Eric Hobsbawm in this persuasive and highly readable book.

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Product Description: Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most important essays, centred around three major, interlocking, themes: analysis of the groups of early activists who formed labour and socialist parties; the structure and development of socialist ideology; and the interaction between theory, doctrine and external circumstance that Haupt considered the very essence of intellectual debate...read more
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9780521180672 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 17, 2011, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals.

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* An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world, looking at the historical background and its lessons for the future, from one of Britain's foremost political historians
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9780316027823 | Gardners Books, July 5, 2007, cover price $31.45 | About this edition: * An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world, looking at the historical background and its lessons for the future, from one of Britain's foremost political historians

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9780349120669 | Gardners Books, April 3, 2008, cover price $16.20

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* Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara that could be key to a deeper understanding of today's current affairs
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9780349120560 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 5, 2007), cover price $19.80 | About this edition: * Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara that could be key to a deeper understanding of today's current affairs
9781565846982 | New Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Back in print, groundbreaking essays from "the best known living historian in the world" (The Times, London).

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Product Description: This groundbreaking book offers an in-depth historical perspective on the rise of capitalism, written by one of the leading scholars of the Global South. Arguing that globalisation is generally poorly understood, Jha offers a new synthesis of political and economic theory that sheds light on the consequences of rapid industrialisation worldwide...read more
By E. J. Hobsbawm (foreword by) and Prem Shankar Jha
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9780745325309 | Pluto Pr, December 6, 2006, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking book offers an in-depth historical perspective on the rise of capitalism, written by one of the leading scholars of the Global South.

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Product Description: This groundbreaking book offers an in-depth historical perspective on the rise of capitalism, written by one of the leading scholars of the Global South. Arguing that globalisation is generally poorly understood, Jha offers a new synthesis of political and economic theory that sheds light on the consequences of rapid industrialisation worldwide...read more
By E. J. Hobsbawm (foreword by) and Prem Shankar Jha
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9780745325293 | Pluto Pr, December 6, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking book offers an in-depth historical perspective on the rise of capitalism, written by one of the leading scholars of the Global South.

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9788484326618 | Italian edition edition (Critica, November 7, 2005), cover price $48.95

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Product Description: Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms "the most extraordinary and terrible century in human history...read more
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9780375422348 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Recounts the life of the celebrated historian known for his coverage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as his staunch Marxism, noting his early years in Egypt, Vienna, and Berlin; witness to critical WWII events, education at King's College, teaching career, extensive travels, and political views.

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9781565849655 | New Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians.

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9788449315862, titled "El optimismo de la voluntad / the Optimism of the Will" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 1, 2004, cover price $10.95

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9788484323501 | Critica, May 1, 2002, cover price $28.95

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Second revised edition of an illustrated historical study of bandits and banditry, the original edition of which was published in 1969. It discusses the economic and political impact of bandits throughout the world, as well as the romantic aspect of bandits as folk heroes, celebrated in legend and song. It is written by the author of AGE OF EMPIRE.
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9780349113029 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 2, 2001), cover price $19.70 | About this edition: Second revised edition of an illustrated historical study of bandits and banditry, the original edition of which was published in 1969.
9781565846197 | Rev sub edition (New Pr, September 1, 2000), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Discusses the motives and social provocations behind the legendary exploits of bandits, Indian dacoits, and Brazilian congaceiros known to be champions of social justice throughout the world.
9780394748504 | Rev sub edition (Pantheon Books, April 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The motives and social provocations behind the legendary exploits of bandits who have become folk heroes throughout the world are discussed in this historic survey

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Product Description: An incisive overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances. 12,500 first printing.
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9780844671215 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: An incisive overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances.
9780394585758 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1995, cover price $28.25 | About this edition: An overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances

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9780679730057 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780844671222 | Revised edition (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 2001), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781565845619 | Upd sub edition (New Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Updates the classic study of the industrial revolution, while exploring Britain's rise and subsequent decline from industrial power

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Product Description: Two of the world's great Marxist historians present a classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play--and when capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, tensions reached the breaking point...read more
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9781842122358 | Phoenix, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Two of the world's great Marxist historians present a classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830.
9780393007930 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The events of the 1830 agricultural uprising are described against the background of early-nineteenth-century social and economic changes in rural areas

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Product Description: A short, hard-hitting sequel to The Age of Extremes by the "best-known living historian in the world" (The Times [London]). (On the Edge of the New Century is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller, now in paperback...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781565846036 | New Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781565846715 | New Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A short, hard-hitting sequel to The Age of Extremes by the "best-known living historian in the world" (The Times [London]).

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This volume, the sequel to 'The Age of Extremes', continues Hobsbawm's analysis of the 20th century, asking questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. He looks over the 1990s to learn something of the new era, and assesses global culture.
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9780349113364 | New edition (Gardners Books, December 7, 2000), cover price $14.40 | About this edition: This volume, the sequel to 'The Age of Extremes', continues Hobsbawm's analysis of the 20th century, asking questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come.

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This collection of 26 essays ranges over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the late 20th century and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections.
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9781565844667 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In the last forty years, Eric Hobsbawm's writings on labor history, working people, and social protest have helped open new fields of study and secured his position as "the best known living historian in the world" (The Times, London).

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9780349112282 | New edition (Gardners Books, December 2, 1999), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This collection of 26 essays ranges over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the late 20th century and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections.
9781565845596 | New Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback, an engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London).

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Updates the classic study of the industrial revolution, while exploring Britain's rise and subsequent decline from industrial power
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9780613913461 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $31.85 | About this edition: Updates the classic study of the industrial revolution, while exploring Britain's rise and subsequent decline from industrial power

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Product Description: 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...read more
By A. B. Atkinson (editor), Paul Barker (editor), Ronald Dworkin (editor), Albert O. Hirschman (editor), E. J. Hobsbawm (editor), Amartya Sen (editor) and Dorothy Wedderburn (editor)
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9780198292050 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 27, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780198295181 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 29, 1999, cover price $43.50 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: The first and best, 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'...read more
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9780844669915 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $28.25 | About this edition: The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.
9780844666068, titled "The Age of Capital, 1848-1875" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.
9780684144504, titled "The Age of Capital, 1848-1875" | Encore Editions, June 1, 1975, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.

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9780679772545 | Vintage Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An overview of world history between 1848 and 1875 chronicles the revolutions, wars, social and cultural changes, and the advance and impact of capitalism

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Product Description: Few historians have done more to change the way we see the past than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revolution and European empires, to his magnificent study of the "short twentieth century," The Age of Extremes, Hobsbawm has come to be known as one of the finest practitioners of his craft...read more
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9780844670195 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Few historians have done more to change the way we see the past than Eric Hobsbawm.
9781565843936 | New Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the relationship of past, present, and future in a collection of the preeminent historian's essays on the study and practice of history

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9781565844681 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Few historians have done more to change the way we see the past than Eric Hobsbawm.
9781565844681 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Few historians have done more to change the way we see the past than Eric Hobsbawm.

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Product Description: Does modern art "express the times" or is it a series of wilful aberrations? Do we have any way of judging its success or failures? This text argues that unlike writers and composers, who have come to terms with mass-production and the technology of infinite repetition, painters still cling to the unique art-object, the product of the artist's own hands...read more
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9780500550311 | Thames & Hudson, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Does modern art "express the times" or is it a series of wilful aberrations?

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