12 Best history books like Primitive Rebels by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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Primitive Rebels

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.70

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The classic sociology survey. Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest …

If you liked the history plot in Primitive Rebels by Eric J. Hobsbawm , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Alexander the Great

By: Philip Freeman

4.31

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a gen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.12

Format: 496 pages, ebook

The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America! Vintage photogr… read more

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"Good gravy,"

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"I think I'm in love."

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"There´s always use in fighting,"

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"It's a brave new world, Mr. Portman, And we'll be right behind you."

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

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3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • anthropology
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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5. The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

By: George Orwell , Bernard Crick

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." So starts this … read more

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  • politics
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more

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  • classics
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7. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • classics

8. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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  • classics
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10. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

By: Nicholas Carr

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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11. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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12. To Be Read at Dusk

By: Charles Dickens

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that t… read more

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  • classics

13. Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

By: Noam Chomsky , David Barsamian

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of th… read more

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14. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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15. The Return of Martin Guerre

By: Natalie Zemon Davis

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more

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16. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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17. Pirates and Emperors, Old and New

By: Noam Chomsky

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

This updated edition of Noam Chomsky's classic dis-section of terrorism explores the role of the U.… read more

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18. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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19. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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20. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

By: Diarmaid MacCulloch

3.89

Format: None pages,

The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more

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21. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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22. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

By: Reza Aslan

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more

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23. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

24. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

27. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Maigret's Revolver (Maigret #40)

By: Georges Simenon

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'His artistry is sup… read more

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29. Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States

By: Zoe Baker

4.54

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the Unite… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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30. Primitive Rebels

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.70

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The classic sociology survey. Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest … read more

Similar categories in Eric J. Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels book and Eric J. Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels

  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • political science
  • sociology
  • anthropology

8 Top classics books like Primitive Rebels by Eric J. Hobsbawm

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

George Orwell , Bernard Crick

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

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15 Top audiobook books like The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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