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.

Para contener los libros de historia menos academicos y mas divulgativos nacio en 1997 esta coleccion que ha ido creciendo con extraordinaria rapidez, ya que en cinco anos se han publicado titulos que han alcanzado, en general, una extraordinaria difusion. Entre ellos, las tres famosas &la" eras de Hobsbawm: La era de la revolucion; La era del capital y La era del imperio, pero tambien libros tan destacados como Pensar historicamente, de Pierre Vilar, Sobre la historia, del propio Hobsbawm, Carlos V y su tiempo, de John Lynch, Historia economica de la Europa contemporanea, de Vera Zamagni, La historia de los hombres, de Josep Fontana o Espana en su cenit, de Jordi Nadal. Publicado en castellano por Ariel en 1968, y agotada su ultima edicion desde hacia tiempo, nos ha parecido que, ante los nuevos fenomenos de &la" protesta primitiva que surgen en toda Europa con la dificil integracion de los inmigrantes, es oportuno regresar a las ensenanzas de este libro sobre las formas arcaicas de los movimientos sociales en los siglos XIX y XX.

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.

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.

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of �base� and �superstructure�, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present � historical consciousness � to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.