Uncommon People

by Hobsbawm, E. J.

• ISBN13: 9781565845596
• ISBN10: 1565845595
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Now in paperback, an engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London). Uncommon People collects twenty-six essays by Eric Hobsbawm, "one of the truly great synthesizers of the last few centuries of European history" (Philadelphia Inquirer). It brings back into print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the villainy of Roy Cohn to the genius of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holliday. A true Renaissance man, Hobsbawm explores topics from Mario Puzo and the MaAOa to Tom Paine and the radical tradition. Highlighting Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women, Uncommon People offers both an exciting introduction for the uninitiated as well as a broad-ranging retrospective of the work of this "erudite and influential historian" (Los Angeles Times).

Table of Contents

Preface
Tom Paine	p. 1
The Machine-Breakers	p. 5
Political Shoemakers	p. 18
Labour Traditions	p. 44
The Making of the Working Class, 1870-1914	p. 57
Victorian Values	p. 75
Man and Woman: Images on the Left	p. 94
Birth of a Holiday: the First of May	p. 113
Socialism and the Avant-Garde, 1880-1914	p. 128
The Left's Megaphone	p. 140
Peasants and Politics	p. 146
Peasant Land Occupations	p. 166
The Bandit Giuliano	p. 191
Vietnam and the Dynamics of Guerrilla War	p. 200
May 1968	p. 213
The Rules of Violence	p. 223
Revolution and Sex	p. 229
Epitaph for a Villain: Roy Cohn	p. 233
The Caruso of Jazz	p. 236
Count Basie	p. 246
The Duke	p. 254
Jazz Comes to Europe	p. 265
The People's Swing	p. 274
Jazz since 1960	p. 281
Billie Holiday	p. 293
The Old World and the New: 500 Years of Columbus	p. 295
Notes	p. 304
Index	p. 347
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