The book was originally published by Manchester University Press in 1959 and released in 1960 in the United States byFree Press ofGlencoe, Illinois under an alternative main title:Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels, which emphasised the concept of thesocial bandit created by Hobsbawm in the book.[1] The 1971edition by Manchester University Press, numbered as the third but being the only amended one, includes a new preface and minor changes to the text.
The book's French translation appeared still in 1959 asLes Primitifs de la révolte dans l'Europe moderne (Paris:Fayard). The German rendition by Renate Müller-Isenburg and Charles Barry Hyams followed in 1962 (Sozialrebellen. Archaische Sozialbewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert,Neuwied:Luchterhand).
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