Uncommon people: resistance, rebellion and jazz /
Hobsbawm, E. J. 1917-2012.
Uncommon people: resistance, rebellion and jazz / Eric Hobsbawm. - London Abacus 2012 - ix, 470 p. ; 20 cm.
TB3924/30
Rs.899/-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[The radical tradition] -- Tom Paine --The machine-breakers -- Political shoemakers -- Labour traditions -- The making of the working class, 1870-1914 -- Victorian values -- Man and woman : images on the left -- Birth of a holiday : the First of May -- Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914 -- The Left's megaphone -- [Country people] -- Peasants and politics -- Peasant land occupations -- The bandit Giuliano -- [Contemporary history] -- Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war -- May 1968 -- The rules of violence -- Revolution and sex -- Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn -- [Jazz] -- The Caruso of jazz -- Count Basie -- The Duke -- Jazz comes to Europe -- The people's swing -- Jazz since 1960 -- Billie Holliday -- The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.
9780349112282(pbk.)
Social history.
Working class--History.
Labor movement--History.
Radicalism--History.
Jazz--History and criticism.
331.2509 HOB
Uncommon people: resistance, rebellion and jazz / Eric Hobsbawm. - London Abacus 2012 - ix, 470 p. ; 20 cm.
TB3924/30
Rs.899/-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[The radical tradition] -- Tom Paine --The machine-breakers -- Political shoemakers -- Labour traditions -- The making of the working class, 1870-1914 -- Victorian values -- Man and woman : images on the left -- Birth of a holiday : the First of May -- Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914 -- The Left's megaphone -- [Country people] -- Peasants and politics -- Peasant land occupations -- The bandit Giuliano -- [Contemporary history] -- Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war -- May 1968 -- The rules of violence -- Revolution and sex -- Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn -- [Jazz] -- The Caruso of jazz -- Count Basie -- The Duke -- Jazz comes to Europe -- The people's swing -- Jazz since 1960 -- Billie Holliday -- The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.
9780349112282(pbk.)
Social history.
Working class--History.
Labor movement--History.
Radicalism--History.
Jazz--History and criticism.
331.2509 HOB