226 pp. Illus. Spine bumped. Jacket has some edgewear. A fascinating study of the social bandit in history - robbers and outlaws who are regarded as champions of justice, avengers, or primitive resistance fighters. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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Title: Bandits
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN 10: 0297818856
ISBN 13: 9780297818854
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

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This 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 known only to their own people; others, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world. Setting the historical figures against the ballads, legends and films they have inspired, the author's examples range across the last 400 years and come from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York. All his books have been translated into several languages.

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