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      • Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA (/ ˈhɒbz.bɔːm /; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.
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  2. Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA ( / ˈhɒbz.bɔːm /; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.

  3. May 9, 2019 · By Corey Robin. May 9, 2019. Across two centuries of the modern world, Eric Hobsbawm, a lifelong Marxist, projected a dramatic span that no historian has since managed to achieve. Photograph by...

  4. Feb 1, 2019 · Hobsbawm, who died in 2012 aged 95, was a leader of, and the last significant member of, a group of Communist historians who were a dominant historical force for several decades. Indeed, he...

  5. Eric Hobsbawm was a British historian of the 20th century, known for his left-wing views and his ‘big picture’ approach to understanding 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.

  6. React App. Biography of Eric Hobsbawm. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. by Georg Eisler, 1989. © National Portrait Gallery, London. 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 ...

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