Uncommon people
Subtitle: resistance, rebellion and jazz
By: Eric Hobsbawm.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Working class -- History; Labor movement -- History; History, Modern -- 1945-; Jazz -- History and criticism
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.