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Primitive Rebels
Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest which fall outside the classic patterns of labor or socialist agitation, and even less to those whose political coloring is not modernist or progressive but conservative, or reactionary or, at any rate, rather inarticulate.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 17th 1965
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1959)
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Not all the claims made are tenable, but he makes them well. Regardless, it'll be a world-view shifter for most who read it.
Conceptually interesting but sort of flat accounting of early forms of social rebellion. The book seems to be casting around for reasons to connect the various forms of "primitive" rebellion that it discusses. Hobsbawm went on to write some very highly regarded history books, but this early effort doesn't do much to illuminate the history of uprisings against the social order.
Great insights, not the strongest analysis. Cites a lot of interesting cases. Good intro to different kinds of social rebellion.
The thing about Hobsbawm is that he can do it all- summations of whole centuries, these little low-level studies of revelatory phenomena, and, hell, even jazz criticism. He is pretty much a king.
I'm done with anti-Marxists...
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also published as: Eric Hobsbawm; E.J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm, a self-confessed "unrepentant communist" is professor emeritus of economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck. He has written many acclaimed historical works, including a trilogy on the nineteenth-century; The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire and is the author of ...more
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Eric Hobsbawm, a self-confessed "unrepentant communist" is professor emeritus of economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck. He has written many acclaimed historical works, including a trilogy on the nineteenth-century; The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire and is the author of ...more
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