Sheila Rowbotham’s latest book is Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States. One of her ten favorite books of radical history, as shared at the Guardian:Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm (1959)Read about the other entries on the list.
Packed with bandits, mobs, anarchic millenarians and wandering journeymen, this delighted me as a student. Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
--Marshal Zeringue
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