Uncommon People

Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm

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An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London)
Hobsbawm writes with authority and elegance, commanding subject, form and language.... A dazzling mosaic.... Marvelous. 
-- New York Times Book Review
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print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the villainy of Roy Cohen to the genius of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holliday.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).

A fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Eric Hobsbawm teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York.  He has written several highly praised books, including Age of Extremes, The Age of Empire, The Age of Revolution, On History, and Empire.
History
Fall 1999
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 368 pages
978-1-56584-559-6

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