Bandits

Hobsbawm, Prof Eric

ISBN 10: 0297818856 / ISBN 13: 9780297818854

Editore: W&N, 2000

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• Titolo: Bandits
• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0297818856
• ISBN 13: 9780297818854
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

This is a study of the social bandit, or bandit-rebel, robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan "haiduks", Indian "dacoits" or Brazilian "congaceiros", their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in story and myth. Some are known only to their own people; others, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world. Setting the historical figures against the ballads, legends and films they have inspired, the author's examples range across the last 400 years and come from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.

Informazioni sull?autore

Born in Alexandria in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught for most of his career at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History. He is best known for his trilogy of studies on the long 19th century (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914). He died in London in October 2012 at the age of ninety-five.