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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm (born June 9, 1917) is a British historian and author, earlier the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain.
Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria and grew up in Vienna and Berlin. He moved to London in 1933 and was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a PhD in history and joined the Communist party in 1936.
In 1947, he became a lecturer in history at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 1970, he was appointed professor, and in 1978 he was made a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 1956, he spoke out against the Soviet invasion of Hungary and left the British Communist Party to join its Italian equivalent.
He worked with Marxism Today during the 1980s and supported Neil Kinnock's modernisation of the British Labour Party.
Publication list
He has written (among other things) the following books:
- Labour's Turning Point
- Primitive Rebels
- The Age of Revolution
- Labouring Men
- Industry and Empire
- Bandits
- Captain Swing (with George Rude)
- Revolutionaries
- The Age of Capital
- Workers
- The Age of Empire
- Nations and Nationalism
- The Jazz Scene
- Age of Extremes
- Interesting Times (autobiography)
External links
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The Age of Extremes : A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
Interesting Times : A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm
Age of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 by David Forgacs
The Age of Capital : 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm
On History by Eric J. Hobsbawm
On the Edge of the New Century by Eric Hobsbawm
Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Historia del Siglo XX by Eric J. Hobsbawm
The Construction of Nationhood : Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism by Adrian Hastings
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz by Eric J. Hobsbawm
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