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* Classic essays on the history of radical protest.

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Quite billiant...because he assembles his arguments with knowledge ranging across both countries and centuries, they have a rare potency * Scotsman *
Eric Hobsbawn has become informally enthroned as Britain's leading historian...ge combines a novelist's narrative power with an unrivalled command of detail and source -- Neal Ascherson * Observer *
Demonstrating that it is possible to be both erudite and accessible, he turns his attention to the "uncommon people" of the 18th and 19th centuries... [Hobsbawm] provides a brilliant deconstruction of the popular idea that revolution and sexual freedom are intrinsically connected. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book. * OBSERVER *
One of the outstanding historians of our age * Independent on Sunday *

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/12/1999
      ISBN13: 9780349112282, 978-0349112282
      ISBN10: 0349112282
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * Classic essays on the history of radical protest.

      Trade Review
      Quite billiant...because he assembles his arguments with knowledge ranging across both countries and centuries, they have a rare potency * Scotsman *
      Eric Hobsbawn has become informally enthroned as Britain's leading historian...ge combines a novelist's narrative power with an unrivalled command of detail and source -- Neal Ascherson * Observer *
      Demonstrating that it is possible to be both erudite and accessible, he turns his attention to the "uncommon people" of the 18th and 19th centuries... [Hobsbawm] provides a brilliant deconstruction of the popular idea that revolution and sexual freedom are intrinsically connected. * SUNDAY TIMES *
      Dump-if you have any- your preconceptions about Marxist history and buy this book. * OBSERVER *
      One of the outstanding historians of our age * Independent on Sunday *

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