Uncommon people
Subtitle: resistance, rebellion and jazz
By: Eric Hobsbawm.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Social history.; Working class -- History.; Labor movement -- History.; Radicalism -- History.; Jazz -- History and criticism.
Description: This engaging collection features twenty-six Hobsbawm essays covering the history of working men and women between the late eighteenth century and today, bringing back into print Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labor history along with more recent, previously unpublished pieces.

Uncommon People shows the range of Hobsbawm's work, on such subjects as the formation of the British working class, revolution and sex, and socialism and the avant garde. From essays on Mario Puzo and the mafia, to the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus, Hobsbawm's passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women shines through.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: [The radical tradition]; title: Tom Paine; title: The machine-breakers; title: Political shoemakers; title: Labour traditions; title: The making of the working class, 1870-1914; title: Victorian values; title: Man and woman : images on the left; title: Birth of a holiday : the First of May; title: Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914; title: The Left's megaphone; title: [Country people]; title: Peasants and politics; title: Peasant land occupations; title: The bandit Giuliano; title: [Contemporary history]; title: Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war; title: May 1968; title: The rules of violence; title: Revolution and sex; title: Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn; title: [Jazz]; title: The Caruso of jazz; title: Count Basie; title: The Duke; title: Jazz comes to Europe; title: The people's swing; title: Jazz since 1960; title: Billie Holliday; title: The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.