Defines our understanding of colonialism and empire.

Based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Said's essays explore what it means to be an intellectual today. He argues that the intellectual's role is to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation.

Hobsbawm s classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.

This work traces the civilizing of manners in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, and shows how this was related to the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them. Originally published as two volumes: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization .

Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. His autobiography is an account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently.