Primitive rebels: studies in archaic forms of social movements in the 19th and 20th centuries

Introduction -- The Social Bandit -- Mafia -- Millenarianism I: Lazzaretti -- Millenarianism Ii: The Andalusian Anarchists -- Millenarianiam Iii: The Sicilian Fasci And Peasant Communism -- The City Mob -- The Labour Sects -- Ritual In Social Movements -- Appendix: In Their Own Voices -- A Letter From Pascuqle Tenteddu, Outlaw And Bandit (sardinia 1954) -- The Brigand Varderelli Helps The Poor (apulia 1817) -- A Bourbon Brigand Examined (south Italy, Early 1860s) -- Donato Manduzio Confutes A False Apostle (san Nicandro, Early 1930s) -- A Peaseant Woman On The Good Society (piana Dei Greci, Sicily 1893) -- A Commune Unpoisoned By Cities (ukraine 1918) -- The Peasants Distrust Governments (ukraine 1917) -- The Will Of The Tsar (poltava 1902; Chernigov 1905) -- Conversation Of Giovanni Lopez, Cobbler (san Giovanni In Fiore 1955) -- Two Strike Sermons (loray, North Caroline 1929) -- A Lincolnshire Unionist: Joseph Chapman (alford 1899) -- The 'men Of Decision Recommend A Brother (lecce, Apulia 1817) -- Some Secret Oaths (britain 1830s, Naples 1815-20, Paris 1834) -- Geographical Index -- Index Of Names -- Subject Index. By E.j. Hobsbawm. Originally Published Under The Title: Social Bandits And Primitive Rebels--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. THIS essay consists of studies on the following subjects, all of which can be described as 'primitive' or 'archaic' forms of social agitation: banditry of the Robin Hood type, rural secret societies, various peasant revolutionary movements of the millenarian sort, pre-industrial urban 'mobs' and their riots, some labour religious sects and the use of ritual in early labour and revolutionary organizations. The classic sociology survey. Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest which fall outside the classic patterns of labor or socialist agitation, and even less to those whose political coloring is not modernist or progressive but conservative, or reactionary or, at any rate, rather inarticulate. **Primitive Rebels** is a 1959 book by Eric Hobsbawm on pre-modern European social movements and social banditry. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Rebels))