This Boxset contain the following Titles Bandits - Bandits is a study of the social bandit or bandit rebel robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in story and myth. Some are only know to their fellow countrymen others like Rob Roy, Robin Hood and Jesse James are famous throughout the world. First published in 1969, Bandits inspired a new field of historical study bandit history. This substantially extended and revised new edition appears at a time when the disintegration of state power has reintroduced fertile conditions for banditry once again to flourish in many parts of the world. Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism - In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us in recent years that is the effects of globalization, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism. As we are only too aware, all of these have the power to affect our daily lives, from the state of our economies to the fear of murderous bomb attacks in our cities. Hobsbawm discusses war and peace in our lifetime, problems of public order, anarchy and terrorism, nationalism and the changing nature of the nation state and the future prospects for democracy, setting out the historical background and the lessons it can offer us. Above all, he turns his piercing gaze to the Middle East and Western imperialism. Engaging, erudite and demonstrating his characteristically firm grasp of the facts and statistics, Hobsbawm's essays are indispensable to our understanding of the world we live in. Interesting Times -

Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are back dropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century from Hitler rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for eighty-five years and has been constantly committed to understanding the interesting times (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jew's account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently and how it became the world we now live in. On History - In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. They deal, among many other subjects with the problems of writing history, its abuses and the historian's responsibilities with the history of society and history from below with Marx and current historical trends or fashions with Europe, the Russian Revolution and the descent into a world-wide barbarism that, increasing for most of the twentieth century, threatens to destroy the civilization we have inherited from the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. These essays reveal a passionate belief in the importance of studying history, as well as displaying the incisive analysis, the breadth of allusion and the distinctive viewpoint for which this great historian is justly famous. Revolutionaries - Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary movements and ideas that dominated the twentieth century and which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. The essays here explore a broad range of related topics including the history of communism, the influence of Marxism, insurrection, military coups and guerrilla warfare and the role of intellectuals. This updated edition presents new thoughts on anti communist polemics and the Spanish Civil War. Written with clarity and masterly assurance, Eric Hobsbawm's essays are indispensable for a true understanding both of twentieth century history and of the pattern of events today. The New Century - Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, The New Century continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth cent