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Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and spent his childhood mainly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive family. After serving in the Second World War, he obtained his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge.
May 9, 2019 · Hobsbawm, perhaps the world’s most renowned historian, saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age. By Corey Robin. May 9, 2019. Across two centuries of the...
His main interest lay in Europe, with Latin America a close second, and he ignored China, was dismissive of the US, and wholly uninterested in Africa. On a personal level, Hobsbawm could be warm...
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. Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1917 and spent his childhood in Vienna and Berlin.
May 7, 2019 · 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.
Obituary: Professor Eric Hobsbawm. 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.
Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest (1917–2012), historian, was born on 9 June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, the elder child of Leopold Percy Hobsbawm, formerly Obstbaum, general merchant, and his wife, Nelly, née Grün. His grandfather was a Polish Jew and cabinet-maker who came to London in the 1870s.
Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012: Magnificent historian and colleague. One of the world’s leading historians, Professor Eric Hobsbawm, was interviewed about his distinguished 65-year association with Birkbeck less than a month before he died.
The Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography provides the first comprehensive bibliography of the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012).
Oct 1, 2012 · Eric Hobsbawm was a 14-year-old orphan, living with his uncle in Berlin, when he joined the Communist Party. In his 80s, he reflected: "Anybody who saw Hitler's rise happen first-hand could not...
