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Eric Hobsbawm was widely acknowledged as the outstanding historian working in the English language of the postwar period. He was never, however, simply a “radical historian,” seeking parallels in the past for his own convictions. Often, he worked against the grain. A Marxist, he was peerless as an anatomist of the nineteenth century ...
Oct 6, 2012 · Eric Hobsbawm was a rare bird himself: “the last living Communist”, as he was teased at his 90th birthday party, and one of the last committed Marxist historians. He had become a Communist at ...
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London, and Cambridge. From 1947-1982, Hobsbawm was Professor of Economic and Social History at Birbeck College, University of London. He also taught at Stanford, MIT, Cornell, and the New School for Social Research…
About The Age of Revolution: 1749-1848. This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm’s epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of ...
Eric Hobsbawm treats also Marx's `Grundrisse' and the idea of progress, `The German Ideology' and its historical periodization (kinship - feudalism - capitalism), `The Communist Manifesto' and the openness to failure of the proletarian action, F. Engels's formidable analysis of the dire straits of the English working class in the 19th century and A. Gramsci's Marxist importance for his concept ...
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Oct 1, 2012 · 1 October 2012. A look at Eric Hobsbawm's life and work. Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95, his family have confirmed. He died in the early hours ...
Eric Hobsbawm. Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 tháng 6 năm 1917 – 1 tháng 10 năm 2012) là sử gia nổi tiếng người Anh gốc Do Thái, nhiều ảnh hưởng trên thế giới, và cũng là nhà Mác-xít kiên định, từng dẫn dắt hệ phái Mác-xít châu Âu ( eurocommunism ) Sinh ra trong gia đình cả bố mẹ ...
