Bandits - Hardcover

Hobsbawm, Prof Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297818856 ISBN 13: 9780297818854

Verlag: W&N, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

128p hardback, dustjacket, discussion of bandits as folk heroes, covering Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Joaquin Murieta, many halftone plates, notes, indices, a clean copy, in very good condition

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Reseña del editor

First published in 1969, this little book provoked a whole new field of historical study: bandit history. This substantially revised and expanded new edition brings the book up to the present day, when the disintegration of state power has brought back banditry to many parts of the world.
From the Balkan haiduks, to the Indian dacoits to the Peruvian congaceiros banditry has been mythologised in legend and song across the globe. In Bandits Eric Hobsbawm tells the dramatic story of these men, their violent and action-packed lives, and bloody deaths. But who were these bandits? Were they really champions of social justice as was claimed? What qualities did they possess to make them unique? What was their place within the economic and political framework? And why did characters such as Robin Hood and Jesse James become known throughout the world? These questions and many others are answered in this fascinating, fast-paced history of myth and reality.

Biografía del autor

Born in Alexandria in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught for most of his career at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History. He is best known for his trilogy of studies on the long 19th century (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914). He died in London in October 2012 at the age of ninety-five.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0297818856
• ISBN 13: 9780297818854
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 237