Uncommon People

Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm
An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from the
popular peoples historian who has influenced our
understanding of the previous three centuries like no other
(The Boston Globe)
Hobsbawm writes with authority and elegance, commanding subject, form and language. . . . A
dazzling mosaic. . . . Marvelous. The New York Times Book Review

Purchase paperback $16.95

Published: September 1999
Paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 , 368 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56584-559-6

Other editions:
Purchase hardcover $27.50

Highlighting Eric Hobsbawms 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and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from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 man Tony Judt called a brilliant historian in the great English
tradition of narrative history.
Topics: World History/WWII

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Books by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria

in 1917 and educated in Austria,
Germany, and England. He taught at
Birkbeck College, the University of
London, and the New School for Social
Research in New York.
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