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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA (/ ˈ h ɒ b z. b ɔː m /; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914) and the "short 20th century" (The Age of Extremes), and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea ...
May 9, 2019 · Eric Hobsbawm was a historian and a Communist. The first pursuit brought him great success. When he died, in 2012, at the age of ninety-five, nearly all of his books were still in print, his ...
Feb 1, 2019 · Eric Hobsbawm was an international phenomenon of his time. A leading proponent of the new “social history”, he also upended the modern historical century with his proposal for the “long 19th ...
Web site created using create-react-app. Eric Hobsbawm was one of the leading Marxist historians of the twentieth century and one of the best-known historians in the English-speaking world.
Eric Hobsbawm was a British historian of the 20th century, known for his left-wing views and his 'big picture' view of the past. By the time of his death in 2012, Hobsbawm was arguably Britain's most respected historian and certainly its best-known Marxist historian.
Jul 8, 2020 · This article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a Jacobin publication.Right now, you can subscribe to the print edition of Catalyst for just $20.. Review of Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History, by Richard J. Evans (Oxford University Press, 2019).. Were the British Marxist historians a coherent lot, congealed in the sameness of their affiliation to historical materialism?
May 7, 2019 · xii, 627 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution.
Oct 2, 2012 · Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volume economic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him as Britain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian, died on Monday in London.
Professor of History, President of Birkbeck, and one of the world's leading historians. Eric Hobsbawm - or, rather, E.J. Hobsbawm as I first knew him - was unavoidable from the moment I had any ambition to think seriously about history.
Oct 6, 2012 · Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st, aged 95 | Obituary
