Eric Hobsbawm

Bandits

Historical study of social banditry as form of peasant resistance across cultures

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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm

British Marxist historian whose four-volume history of the long 19th century and the short 20th century is the most celebrated work of historical synthesis in the English language. The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes are required reading for understanding the modern world.

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