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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.
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 GÈrard Rondeau / Agence VU /...
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 ...
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.
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state socialism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an equally skeptical take on the progress of the arts and changes in society in the latter half of the ...
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 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.
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.
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...
Sep 1, 2019 · By the time he died in 2012, Eric Hobsbawm was one of the best-known historians in the world. He had made signature contributions to a range of overlapping historical fields, from labour history to the history of nationalism. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world had read his books.
