We are the poor, the cast off, the down trodden of the Old World. The Noble Robbers are the romanticized concept of noble criminals who fight injustice and have a large popularity with the lower classes; key figures include Robin Hood , DIego Corrientes and Juro Janosik. Orion , Dec 30, - History - pages. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Sep 07, Margaret Sankey rated it liked it. This book is especially useful for those who are not already familiar with the "Bandit" myth. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. 
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Want to Read saving…. It falls far from Hobsbawm's standard of hobwbawm great prose with scientific rigour and for the greatest part I was bored with repetitive comments on banditry and quite long lists of bandits' names. See all 12 customer reviews.
Get fast, free delivery with Amazon Prime. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. I finally finished Eric Hobsbawn's classic work on agrarian bandits whose role as social rebels comes mostly from fiction rather than historical reality.
Quite uneven and perhaps more scholarly than I bandist have liked it to be. In this, Hobsbawm acknowledges, the political implications of banditry in general is highly variable, but his focus is on its unacknowledged radical potential protest and rebellion.
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Eric Hobsbawm’s ‘Bandits’
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The Short 20th Century and his recent au Eric Hobsbawm, a self-confessed "unrepentant communist", was professor emeritus of economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck. Nov 27, Jackson Cyril rated it it was amazing Shelves: These conclusions are hobshawm always accurate, I feel. Lectura interesante pero algo latosa.
Were these men social avengers or just plain criminals? I love all that stuff.
This book is especially useful for those who are not already familiar with the "Bandit" myth. And every one of us treasures the memory real or not of some ancestor bucking oppression in Ireland or Scotland or Germany and coming to the United States to be free. This page was last edited on 16 Augustat EuropeThe Age of Capital: A fascinating discussion of the role of "Robin Hood" bandits in literature and folklore.
As always, Hobsbawm's Marxist analysis obscures the religious, ethnic and racial underpinnings of banditry, and although written inoverlooks the role of any women at all in the peasantry. Both, we may say… bxndits If you are interested in conflict, criminology, revolutions, and related this has to be in your book shelf.
The Economics of American Slavery. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in story hobsbadm myth.
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