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Eric Hobsbawm
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born
June 09, 1917
gender
male
place of birth
Alexandria, Egypt
genre
History
about this author
also published as: Eric J. Hobsbawm; E.J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm, a self-confessed "unrepentant communist" is professor emeritus of economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck. He has written many acclaimed historical works, including a trilogy on the nineteenth-century; The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire and is the author of The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century 1914-1991 and his recent autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life.
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 4.01 — 212 ratings — published 1994 14 editions |
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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 4.06 — 156 ratings — published 1962 20 editions |
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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 3.94 — 96 ratings — published 1987 13 editions |
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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 4.09 — 90 ratings — published 1975 14 editions |
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The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm, Terrence Ranger avg rating 3.87 — 67 ratings — published 1983 4 editions |
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 3.54 — 71 ratings — published 1991 10 editions |
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Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 3.58 — 24 ratings — published 1973 7 editions |
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Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published 1969 11 editions |
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 3.83 — 18 ratings — published 2002 8 editions |
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On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm avg rating 3.27 — 15 ratings — published 2008 2 editions |
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"Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market."
— Eric Hobsbawm
— Eric Hobsbawm
"Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.
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