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The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848.  It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest.  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This enthralling and original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for half a century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399048888498,"sku":"9780349104843","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349104843_3c23bb1d-51cb-4d29-a99d-95b9236c0196.jpg?v=1786013699"},{"product_id":"9780349112282","title":"Uncommon People","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with more recent reflections previously unpublished in book form.\u003cbr\u003eEric Hobsbawm's penetrating essays on labour history and social protest opened up a new field of study and set standards of wide-ranging, evocative, incisive analysis.  Essays in this collection include the formation of the British working class; labour custom and traditions; the political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers; male and female images in revolutionary movements; revolution and sex; peasants and politics; and the common-sense of Tom Paine.  More recent essays include meditations on the May Day holiday; the Vietnam War; socialism and the avantgarde; Mario Puzo, the Mafia and the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano; and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus.  \u003cbr\u003eThroughout these essays runs a passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women - uncommon people, all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56285988946293,"sku":"9780349112282","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349112282_fc7a13d0-adb4-402b-a277-54d9b333855f.jpg?v=1786013764"},{"product_id":"9780349120560","title":"Revolutionaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long-standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary movements and ideas that dominated the twentieth century, and which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. The essays here explore a broad range of related topics including the history of communism, the influence of marxism, insurrection, military coups and guerrilla warfare, and the role of intellectuals. This updated edition presents new thoughts on anti-communist polemics and the Spanish Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with clarity and masterly assurance, Eric Hobsbawm's essays are indispensable for a true understanding both of twentieth-century history and of the pattern of events today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286095868277,"sku":"9780349120560","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349120560_3ca96e07-13c1-4754-9490-584f77f3cc23.jpg?v=1786013931"},{"product_id":"9780349139098","title":"Fractured Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change.  As the century progressed, the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siècle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City Hall. In \u003ci\u003eFractured Times\u003c\/i\u003e Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation and dissolution with characteristic verve and vigour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHobsbawm examines the conditions that created the great cultural flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration, from paternalistic capitalism to globalisation and the arrival of a mass consumer society.  Passionate but never sentimental, Hobsbawm ranges freely across his subject: he records the passing of the golden age of the 'free intellectual' and examines the lives of great, forgotten men; he analyses the relation between art and totalitarianism and dissects cultural phenomena as diverse as surrealism, women's emancipation and the American cowboy myth.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with consummate imagination and skill, \u003ci\u003eFractured Times\u003c\/i\u003e is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286238048629,"sku":"9780349139098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349139098_e1387c5b-7948-4401-91ff-3a73208065f3.jpg?v=1786014240"},{"product_id":"9780349141299","title":"Viva la Revolucion","description":"\u003cp\u003eEric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin America. After the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba in January 1959, and even more after the defeat of the American attempt to overthrow him at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, 'there was not an intellectual in Europe or the USA', he wrote, 'who was not under the spell of Latin America, a continent apparently bubbling with the lava of social revolutions'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Third World brought the hope of revolution back to the First in the 1960s'. The two great international inspirations were Cuba and Vietnam, 'triumphs not only of revolution, but of Davids against Goliaths, of the weak against the all-powerful'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286243783029,"sku":"9780349141299","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349141299_52c89641-59f6-42c2-a776-5fe612cbb234.jpg?v=1786013418"},{"product_id":"9780349113531","title":"Interesting Times","description":"Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century from Hitler's rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for eighty-five years, and has been constantly committed to understanding the 'interesting times' (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jew's account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently, and how it became the world we now live in.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286335336821,"sku":"9780349113531","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349113531_ca0a8b9f-d49e-48eb-a0e1-580f8eace68d.jpg?v=1786013782"},{"product_id":"9780349106717","title":"The Age Of Extremes","description":"THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. 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Some are only know to their fellow countrymen; others like Rob Roy, Robin Hood and Jesse James are famous throughout the world.  First published in 1969, Bandits inspired a new field of historical study: bandit history.  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As we are only too aware, all of these have the power to affect our daily lives, from the state of our economies to the fear of murderous bomb attacks in our cities. Hobsbawm discusses war and peace in our lifetime, problems of public order, anarchy and terrorism, nationalism and the changing nature of the nation-state, and the future prospects for democracy, setting out the historical background and the lessons it can offer us. Above all, he turns his piercing gaze to the Middle East and Western imperialism.\u003cbr\u003eEngaging, erudite and demonstrating his characteristically firm grasp of the facts and statistics, Hobsbawm's essays are indispensable to our understanding of the world we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286897176949,"sku":"9780349120669","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349120669.jpg?v=1786013937"},{"product_id":"9780349143507","title":"On Nationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising tide of nationalist parties. 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They deal, among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian's responsibilities; with the history of society and 'history from below'; with Marx and current historical trends or fashions; with Europe, the Russian Revolution and the descent into a world-wide barbarism that, increasing for most of the twentieth century, threatens to destroy the civilisation we have inherited from the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays reveal a passionate belief in the importance of studying history, as well as displaying the incisive analysis, the breadth of allusion and the distinctive viewpoint for which this great historian is justly famous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311710679413,"sku":"9780349110509","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349110509_a59c3fd5-0e99-4925-a010-b39ccb8c4814.jpg?v=1786013752"},{"product_id":"primitive-rebels","title":"Primitive Rebels","description":"\u003cp\u003eSocial agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. 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