Background
Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest was born on June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Leopold Percy and Nelly (Gruen) Hobsbawm.
( The classic sociology survey. Little attention has be...)
The classic sociology survey. 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.
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(From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudon...)
From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.' "All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ...Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine." (Kirkus Reviews).
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(This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient trad...)
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.
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(The topics covered in this book can be divided into four ...)
The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; studies in the 'new trade unionism' of 1889 to 1914; studies in the late nineteenth-century revival of Socialism in Britain; and more general topics covering a wider chronological span. The common factor in this wide-ranging work is that, unlike much other work of labour history, it concentrates on the working classes as such, and on the economic and technical conditions which allowed labour movements to be effective or which prevented their effectiveness. This work is notable not only for its clarity and incisiveness, but also for the richness and variety of the material, which ranges from Marx to Methodism and from labour traditions to the machine breakers.
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Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm’s brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain’s rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory on the lives of its ordinary citizens. This new edition includes a fascinating summary of events of the last twenty years, and an illuminating new conclusion.
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( In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Ev...)
In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners, but the world over which they presided had been utterly transformed. It was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain - yet that change was achieved without political revolution. Ranging across the developing empire, and dealing with such central institutions as the church, education, health, finance and rural and urban life, The Shaping of Modern Britain provides an unparallelled account of Britain's rise to superpower status. Particular attention is given to the Great Reform Act of 1832, and the implications of the 1867 Reform Act are assessed. The book discusses: - the growing role of the central state in domestic policy making - the emergence of the Labour party - the Great Depression - the acquisition of a vast territorial empire Comprehensive, informed and engagingly written, The Shaping of Modern Britain will be an invaluable introduction for students of this key period of British history.
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(In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and tre...)
In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.
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Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
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In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical frame, Jentz and Schneirov examine the dramatic capitalist transition in Chicago during the critical decades from the 1850s through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage worker class and the formation of an industrial upper class. Jentz and Schneirov demonstrate how a new political economy, based on wage labor and capital accumulation in manufacturing, superseded an older mercantile economy that relied on speculative trading and artisan production. The city's leading business interests were unable to stabilize their new system without the participation of the new working class, a German and Irish ethnic mix that included radical ideas transplanted from Europe. Jentz and Schneirov examine how debates over slave labor were transformed into debates over free labor as the city's wage-earning working class developed a distinctive culture and politics. The new social movements that arose in this era--labor, socialism, urban populism, businessmen's municipal reform, Protestant revivalism, and women's activism--constituted the substance of a new post-bellum democratic politics that took shape in the 1860s and '70s. When the Depression of 1873 brought increased crime and financial panic, Chicago's new upper class developed municipal reform in an attempt to reassert its leadership. Setting local detail against a national canvas of partisan ideology and the seismic structural shifts of Reconstruction, Chicago in the Age of Capital vividly depicts the upheavals integral to building capitalism.
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A fine copy. As new. Later printing. Paper wrappers. Trade format. 384 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. The Penguin Economic History of Britain., Vol. 3.
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Conquered Armies Campaign Setting is a companion booklet to Conquered Armies Rules for a Pathfinder Science Fiction Campaign. It contains maps of Gold Sector, details for trade and exploration of over 50 star systems, 30 alien races and multiple ship classes for the 4 Empires of Gold Sector.
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s Capital: 1848 - 1875 CITIC Publishing House: Pub Date: 2014-02-01 Pages: 384 Language: Chinese Publisher is Part 2 Hobsbawm's tetralogy. the. Hobsbawm's tetralogy (set of four) is recognized as the best primer of modern world history. historian Eric Hobsbawm master calendar monumental effort made more than 30 years. Full show from 1789 to 1991 in the history of the world. Has been translated into 40 languages. the cumulative sales exceeded five million. becoming the world's best-selling history of sustained masterpiece. Chinese version of the latest revision of the publication. former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. former Brazilian President Lula. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. Edward Said. Neil Ferguson. Tony Judt and other famous European and American scholars and highly recommended. Hobsbawm believes that academic services not only for a few people. so it to...
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A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism"; the triumph of a society which believed in competitive private enterprise.
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In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America’s most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America’s big government actually works and why reforms that include adding a million more people to the federal workforce by 2035 might actually help to slow government’s growth while improving its performance. Starting from the underreported reality that the size of the federal workforce hasn’t increased since the early 1960s even though the federal budget has skyrocketed and the number of federal programs has ballooned, Bring Back the Bureaucrats tells us what our elected leaders won’t: there simply are not enough federal workers to do work that’s critical to our democracy. Government in America, DiIulio reveals, is Leviathan by Proxy, a grotesque form of debt-financed big government that guarantees bad government: Washington relies on state and local governments, for-profit firms, and nonprofit organizations to implement federal policies and programs. Big-city mayors, defense industry contractors, nonprofit executives and other federal proxies lobby incessantly for more federal spending. The proxy system chokes on chores as distinct as cleaning up toxic waste sites, caring for hospitalized veterans, collecting taxes, handling plutonium, and policing more than $100 billion a year in improper payments.” The lack of enough competent, well-trained federal civil servants figured in the failed federal response to Hurricane Katrina and in the troubled launch of Obamacare health exchanges,” Bring Back the Bureaucrats is further distinguished by the presence of E. J. Dionne Jr. and Charles Murray, two of the most astute voices from the political left and right, respectively, who offer their candid responses to DiIulio at the end of the book.
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John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersection between the English and Scientific Revolutions, concentrating on a body of work created in a brief but potent burst of intellectual activity during the period of the Civil Wars, the Interregnum, and the earliest years of the Stuart Restoration. Rogers traces the broad implications of a seemingly outlandish cultural phenomenon: the intellectual imperative to forge an ontological connection between physical motion and political action.
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In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren--kingpin of New York's Jacksonian "Regency," president of the United States, and first theoretician of American party politics--threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke masterfully imbues local history with national significance, and his analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers an ideal window on a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.
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"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
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(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...for ascertaining the number of these voluntary schools; but it is supposed that they are to the established schools nearly as 4 to 1, or about 4,000 to 1,162, making in all about 5,150 schools; and supposing they are attended, at an average, by 50 pupils each, we shall have an aggregate attendance of 225,000; and adding to this number for female seminaries, for private boarding schools for boys, &c, and for children taught in private families by governesses and tutors, we may safely estimate that about a tenth part of the population are being educated. We have already noticed that several of the parish schools, in addition to the legal salary, have been endowed, to a greater or less extent, by the benevolence of private individuals. Some of these schools have been so munificently endowed, that education, as a condition of the grant, is free either to the whole or to a large part of the population of the parish. The late James Dick, Esq., of London, bequeathed to the parochial schoolmasters (not in burghs) of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Moray, such a sum as yields 25/. a-year to each, in addition to his other emoluments. The late Dr. Bell, whose name is so honourably connected with the history of education, either gave during his lifetime, or bequeathed, munificent sums for founding and endowing seminaries at St. Andrew's, Leith, Cupar-Fife, and Edinburgh. There is a species of schools established within the last 30 years, called academies, in the larger burghs, such as Edinburgh, Inverness, Tain, Montrose, Cupar Fife, Dundee, Perth, Dumfries, Ayr, &c. They are either under the direct patronage of the subscribers by whom they have been founded, or of the magistrates. These academies and the ancient burgh schools, such as the High School of E...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... the husbandry of Kildare as being as wretched as can possibly be conceived.--(Vol. i., p. 419.) But it has been amended, as is generally indeed the case throughout Leinster, within the last 12 or 20 years; and many of the practices and implements which he justly reprobated, have since been partially superseded. The old plough of the country is now seldom met with. Potatoes are frequently drilled; corn crops do not follow each other in so interminable a succession; and a good deal more wheat is raised; and that, too, of better quality. The bog of this county consists principally of part of the bog of Allen. Principal rivers, Barrow, Liffey, and Boyne. It contains 14 baronies, and 116 parishes; and returns 2 members to parliament, both for the county. Principal towns, Naas and Athy. Population of county in 1841, 114,488. 7. Queen's County, an inland county, is bounded on the south by Kilkenny; on the east by Carlow, Kildare, and a detached portion of King's County; on the north by King's County; and on the west by the latter, and Tipperary. It contains 424,854 acres, of which 69,289 consist of unimproved bog and waste lands. Surface generally flat; and soil, except where bog occurs, for the most part very fertile. Estates mostly large; but many of them let on perpetual leases. The head lessees on these estates form the middle class of gentry. They have mostly let their farms, generally in smaller divisions, to inferior tenants; and these again have subdivided them to others; so that many of the occupancies are extremely small, and are held by persons so very poor as to be incapable of executing any improvement. In cases, however, where the farms have been let by the landlords on terminable leases, they are larger; and a comparatively improved system of agric...
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Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were thinking about baseball statsand thus the game itselfall wrong. Instead of praising sluggers for gaudy RBI totals or pitchers for wins, Thorn and Palmer argued in favor of more subtle measurements that correlated much more closely to the ultimate goal: winning baseball games. The new gospel promulgated by Thorn and Palmer opened the door for a flood of new questions, such as how a ballpark’s layout helps or hinders offense or whether a strikeout really is worse than another kind of out. Taking questions like these seriouslyand backing up the answers with datalaunched a new era, showing fans, journalists, scouts, executives, and even players themselves a new, better way to look at the game. This brand-new edition retains the body of the original, with its rich, accessible analysis rooted in a deep love of baseball, while adding a new introduction by the authors tracing the book’s influence over the years. A foreword by ESPN’s lead baseball analyst, Keith Law, details The Hidden Game’s central role in the transformation of baseball coverage and team management and shows how teams continue to reap the benefits of Thorn and Palmer’s insights today. Thirty years after its original publication, The Hidden Game is still bringing the high heata true classic of baseball literature.
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Details building Chicago in a shifting, clashing political economy
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(Title In This Collection:- The Age of Capital 1848-75 ...)
Title In This Collection:- The Age of Capital 1848-75 The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 The Age of Empire 1875-1914 Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the influence of the Third World. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great0 The Age of Capital, 1848-75 A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'; the triumph of a society which believed in competitive private enterprise. The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great0
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The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard Law School Library ocm13757560 London : Printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1858. 12 p. ; 29 cm.
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At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. This book shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable and humane future.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest was born on June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Leopold Percy and Nelly (Gruen) Hobsbawm.
Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1939. Master of Arts, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, 1951.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Stockholm, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters, New School Social Research, 1982.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University East Anglia, 1982.
Lecturer, Birkbeck College 1947-1959, Reader 1959-1970, Professor, of Economical Social History 1970-1982, Professor Emeritus since 1982. Fellow, King's College, Cambridge 1949-1955. Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University 1976-1982.
Professor Emeritus since 1982. Professor, New School for Social Research, New York since 1984. Honorary degree (Stockholm) 1970, (Chicago) 1976, (East Anglia) 1982, (New School) 1982, York University, Canada 1986, University of Pisa 1987.
F. Social Research, Bard College. Honorary Foreign.
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Author: Labour's Turning Point, 1948, Primitive Rebels, 1959, The Jazz Scene, 1959, The Age of Revolution, 1962, Labouring Men, 1964. Editor: Karl Marx, Precapitalist Formations, 1964, Industry and Empire, 1968. Co-editor (with G. Rude): Captain Swing, 1969.
Editor: Bandits, 1969, Revolutionaries, 1973, The Age of Capital, 1975, Workers, 1984, The Age of Empire, 1987.
Fellow: British Academy. Member: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (foreign), American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Marlene Schwarz, October 26, 1962. Children: Andrew John, Julia Natalie.