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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.
Oct 1, 2012 · Eric Hobsbawm was one of the UK's leading historians and one of the most significant intellectuals of the past half century. His life and works were shaped by his emotional commitment to radical ...
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. He was 95.
Oct 3, 2012 · communism. Adolf Hitler. An unrepentant communist for over 70 years, British historian Eric Hobsbawm drew on his extraordinary life, insatiable curiosity and unrivalled power of synthesis to ...
Nov 1, 2012 · Eric Hobsbawm was not only an eminent scholar but also a public intellectual, speaking out on issues of the day—opposing the Vietnam War and its "humanitarian" successors, addressing teach-ins and labor-movement events. His death on October 1, 2012, was prominently reported on the main British TV news channels and in the London newspapers.
Oct 1, 2012 · Mon 1 Oct 2012 08.55 EDT. Eric Hobsbawm, one of the leading historians of the 20th century, has died, his family said on Monday. Hobsbawm, a lifelong Marxist whose work influenced generations of ...
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.
