Eric Hobsbawm Knihy

Šírenie hodnôt a inštitúcií možno sotva dosiahnuť náhlym uplatnením vonkajšej sily, ak preň nenastali lokálne podmienky, ktoré by ich prispôsobili a umožnili zaviesť. Demokracia a západné hodnoty spolu s ľudskými právami nie sú ako technické importy, ktorých úžitok je bezprostredne zrejmý a prijmú ich všetci, čo ich môžu uplatniť a dopriať si ich ako mierový bicykel a vražedný AK-47 či technické služby ako letiská. Keby nimi boli, mnohé európske, ázijské či africké štáty, ktoré by teoreticky fungovali s podobnými demokratickými ústavami (hoci v praxi to tak nie je), by sa politicky podobali. Slovom, v dejinách je len veľmi málo skratiek: o tom som sa vo svojom živote a pri premýšľaní o mnohých záležitostiach minulého storočia poučil, a nielen ja.

Čtivá a velmi fundovaně napsaná studie předního britského historika Erica Hobsbawma, u nás známého knihou Věk extrémů: krátké dějiny 20. století. Autor v ní přináší komplexní a poučný pohled na vývoj fenoménu nacionalismu od poloviny 19. století až do doby zcela nedávné, který dokumentuje řadou zajímavých konkrétních příkladů. 1.vydání.

The book explores the 20th century by dividing it into three distinct periods: the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Landslide. Hobsbawm utilizes extensive data to provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of these eras, highlighting their unique characteristics and impacts on modern history. This work stands alongside his renowned classics, offering readers a rich and vibrant understanding of the century's transformative events and trends.

An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.

Reissued with a new introduction by Owen Jones, Primitive Rebels is the perfect guide to the revolutions that shaped western civilisation, and the bandits, reformers and anarchists who have fought to change the world.

Reportáže fotografů slavné skupiny Magnum z veřejných událostí revolučního roku 1968 všech tří světů. Doplněno texty Erica Habsbawma a Marca Weitzmanna.

Contains pages 53 to 76 of Chapter 3 from THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789-1848

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, The Age of Empire covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One and shaped modern society.

The bicentenary of the French Revolution has been dominated by those who do not like the French Revolution or its heritage. This book deals with a surprisingly neglected subject: the history, not of the revolution itself, but of its reception and interpretation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Critical assumption of the book is that while it is necessary and inevitable that historians write out of the history of their own times, those who write only out of their own times cannot understand the past and what came out of it. The recent historiographical reaction against the centrality of the Revolution reflects the politics of those contemporary historians for whom progress and revolutionary democracy are dangerous concepts. Their reinterpretations, Hobsbawm argues, are misguided. The Revolution transformed the world permanently and, as recent events in Eastern Europe emphasize, introduced ideas that continue to transform it. 'The French Revolution', writes Hobsbawm, ' gave peoples the sense that history could be changed by their action... and] demonstrated the power of the common people in a manner which no subsequent government has ever allowed itself to forget.'Echoes of the Marseillaise is a stimulating mix of historiography and political analysis, a much-needed epilogue of clarity and reason to a muddled bicentenary.

A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism". The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitve private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgeoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.