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Highlighting Eric Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women, Uncommon People 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print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the villainy of Roy Cohen to the genius of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holliday. Uncommon People offers both an exciting introduction for the uninitiated as well as a broad-ranging retrospective of the work of "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London).
Price: $16.95
Pages: 368
Publisher: The New Press
Imprint: The New Press
Publication Date:
01 September 1999
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.13 in
ISBN: 9781565845596
Format: Paperback
"Hobsbawm writes with authority and elegance, commanding subject, form and language.... A dazzling mosaic.... Marvelous."
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was born in Egypt in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes as well as On History, Uncommon People, Industry and Empire, Bandits, On the Edge of the New Century, Revolutionaries, On Empire, Fractured Times, and his memoir Interesting Times (The New Press).