E. J. Hobsbawm (1918–1987) was a British historian. Born in Egypt, he was educated at Cambridge; he taught at Birkbeck College and The New School. His works include The Age of Extremes; Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism; and On Empire.
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The New Threat to History
December 16, 1993
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Escaped Slaves of the Forest
December 6, 1990
Alabi’s World by Richard Price
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Some Like It Hot
April 13, 1989
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 19301945 by Gunther Schuller
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller
Meet Me at Jim & Andy’s: Jazz Musicians and Their World by Gene Lees
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The Caruso of Jazz
May 12, 1988
Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
by John Chilton
Jazz Odyssey: The Autobiography of Joe Darensbourg as told to Peter Vacher
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Slyest of the Foxes
November 19, 1987
Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier
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All That Jazz
March 26, 1987
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Watch on Colombia
February 26, 1987
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The Jazz Comeback
February 12, 1987
Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues and Related Topics by Hayden Carruth
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley
‘Round Midnight a film by Bernard Tavernier
La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Jazz Under the Nazis by Mike Zwerin
American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz by Whitney Balliett
In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s by Francis Davis
A Life in Jazz
by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton
Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II by Jason Berry, by Jonathan Foose, by Tad Jones
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Murderous Colombia
November 20, 1986
Human Rights in Colombia as President Barco Begins An Americas Watch Report
Los años del tropel: Relatos de la violencia by Alfredo Molano
Estado y subversión en Colombia: La violencia en el Quindío Años 50 by Carlos Miguel Ortiz Sarmiento
Pasado y presente de la Violencia en Colombia edited by Gonzalo Sanchez, edited by Ricardo Peñaranda
La paz, la violencia: testigos de excepción. Hechos ye testimonios sobre 40 años de violencia y paz que vuelven a ser hoy de palpitante actualidad by Arturo Alape
Cese el fuego: Una historia politica de las FARC by Jacobo Arenas
Colonización, coca y guerrilla by Jaime Jaramillo, by Leonidas Mora, by Fernando Cubides
Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos: el caso de la Violencia en Colombia by Gonzalo Sanchez, by Donny Meertens
La Guerra por la paz by Enrique Santos Calderon, prologue by Gabriel García Márquez
Historia de una traición by Laura Restrepo, with the assistance of Camilo Gonzalez
Narcotrafico imperio de la cocaina by Mario Arango, by Jorge Child
The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
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‘Playing for Ourselves’
January 16, 1986
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray
The World of Count Basie by Stanley Dance
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Robin Hoodo
February 14, 1985
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
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On the Watch
December 8, 1983
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David S. Landes
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The Lowest Depths
April 15, 1982
Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane
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Pact with the Devil
December 18, 1980
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig
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Publick Benefits and Private Vices
April 3, 1980
Paternalism in Early Victorian England by David Roberts
Barclay Fox’s Journal edited by R. L. Brett
Aristocracy and the People: Britain 1815-1865 by Norman Gash
Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution by Asa Briggs
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Should the Poor Organize?
March 23, 1978
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven, by Richard A. Cloward
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Dictatorship with Charm
October 2, 1975
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Vulnerable Japan
July 17, 1975
Japan: The Fragile Superpower by Frank Gibney
Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman edited by John W. Dower
A Political History of Japanese Capitalism by Jon Halliday
The Development of Japanese Business 1600-1973 by Johannes Hirschmeier, by Tsunehiko Yui
Japanese Economic Growth by Kazushi Ohkawa, by Henry Rosovsky
Iemoto: The Heart of Japan by Francis L.K. Hsu
The Japanese Economy in International Perspective edited by Isaiah Frank
Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy by J.A.A. Stockwin
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The Great Gramsci
April 4, 1974
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci edited and translated by Quintin Hoare, by Geoffrey Nowell Smith
Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci, selected, translated, and introduced by Lynne Lawner
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Passionate Witness
February 22, 1973
Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study by Irene L. Gendzier
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Peruvian “Indians”
June 15, 1972
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Peru: The Peculiar “Revolution”
December 16, 1971
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A Special Supplement: Chile: Year One
September 23, 1971
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Latin America as US Empire Cracks
March 25, 1971
The Alliance that Lost Its Way by Jerome Levinson, by Juan de Onís
The Containment of Latin America by David Green
Politics and Social Structure in Latin America
by James Petras
Politics and Social Forces in Chilean Development by James Petras
Down There by Jose Yglesias
The Quest for Change in Latin America by W. Raymond Duncan, by James Nelson Goodsell
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Is Science Evil?
November 19, 1970
The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power
by Lewis Mumford
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What’s New in Peru
May 21, 1970
The Unrevolutionary Society: The Power of Latin American Conservatism in a Changing World by John Mander
The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective by Stanley J. Stein, by Barbara H. Stein
Pressure Groups and Power Elites in Peruvian Politics by Carlos A. Astiz
Politics in the Altiplano: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru by Edward Dew
Peru 1965: Notes on a Guerrilla Experience by Hector Béjar
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How to Plot Your Takeover
August 21, 1969
Coup d’Etat, a Practical Handbook by Edward Luttwak
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Birthday Party
May 22, 1969
Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative
by Daniel Cohn-Bendit
The French Student Revolt: The Leaders Speak by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, by Jean-Pierre Duteuil, by Alain Geismar, by Jacques Sauvageot. with an Interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Explosion: Marxism and the French Upheaval by Henri Lefebvre
Red Flag/Black Flag: French Revolution 1968 by Patrick Seale, by Maureen McConville
The Spirit of May by J.J. Servan-Schreiber
Le Mouvement de Mai ou le Communisme Utopique by Alain Touraine
L’Elysée en Péril
by Philippe Alexandre
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1848 and All That
June 1, 1967
1848: The Opening of an Era edited by F. Fejtö, Introduction by A.J.P. Taylor
1848: The Making of a Revolution by Georges Duveau, Introduction by Georges Rudé
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Alive and Kicking
October 20, 1966
Marxism in Modern France by George Lichtheim
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You Can’t Go Home Again
September 30, 1965
Marxism: 100 Years in the Life of a Doctrine by Bertram D. Wolfe
Strange Communists I Have Known by Bertram D. Wolfe
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The Rioting Crowd
April 22, 1965
The Crowd in History, 1730-1848 by George Rudé
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A Christian Materialist
March 11, 1965
The Conquest of the Material World by John Nef
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Mysteries of Economic Growth
June 25, 1964
Economic Growth in France and Britain 1851-1950 by Charles P. Kindleberger
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Koestler’s England
April 2, 1964
Suicide of A Nation? An Inquiry into the State of Britain Today edited by Arthur Koestler