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Index
About the Author
Praise
Also by Eric Hobsbawm
Copyright
Contents
Introduction by Owen Jones
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
I Introduction
II The Social Bandit
III Mafia
IV Millenarianism I: Lazzaretti
V Millenarianism II: The Andalusian Anarchists
VI Millenarianism III: The Sisilian Fasci and Peasant Communism
VII The City Mob
VIII The Labour Sects
IX Ritual in Social Movements
Appendix: In Their Own Voices
1. A letter from Pasquale Tanteddu, outlaw and bandit (Sardinia 1954)
2. The brigand Vardarelli helps the poor (Apulia 1817)
3. A Bourbon brigand examined (South Italy, early 1860s)
4. Donato Manduzio confutes a false apostle (San Nicandro, early 1930s)
5. A peasant woman on the good society (Piana dei Greci, Sicily 1893)
6. A Commune unpoisoned by Cities (Ukraine 1918)
7. The peasants distrust governments (Ukraine 1917)
8. The Will of the Tsar (Poltava 1902; Chernigov 1905)
9. Conversation of Giovanni Lopez, cobbler (San Giovanni in Fiore 1955)
10. Two strike sermons (Loray, North Carolina 1929)
11. A Lincolnshire unionist: Joseph Chapman (Alford 1899)
12. The ‘Men of Decision’ recommend a brother (Lecce, Apulia 1817)
13. Some secret oaths (Britain 1830s, Naples 1815–20, Paris 1834)
Note on Further Reading
Geographical Index
Index of Names
Subject Index
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