British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
"Hobsbawm" redirects here. For the British businessman, son of Eric Hobsbawm, see Andy Hobsbawm. For the British academic, daughter of Eric Hobsbawm, see Julia Hobsbawm.
Eric Hobsbawm
CH FRSL FBA
Hobsbawm in 2004
Born
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (1917-06-09)9 June 1917 Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt
Died
1 October 2012(2012-10-01) (aged 95) London, England
Occupation
Historian
Citizenship
British
Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge
Genre
World history, Western history
Notable works
The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848
The Age of Capital: 1848–1875
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Extremes: 1914–1991
Bandits
Echoes of the Marseillaise
Spouse
Muriel Seaman
(m. 1943; div. 1951)
Marlene Schwartz
(m. 1962)
Children
3, including Julia and Andy
Eric John Ernest HobsbawmCH FRSL FBA (/ˈhɒbz.bɔːm/; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914) and the "short 20th century" (The Age of Extremes), and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.[1]
Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and spent his childhood mainly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive family. After serving in the Second World War, he obtained his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. In 1998, he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. He was president of Birkbeck, University of London, from 2002 until his death.[2] In 2003, he received the Balzan Prize for European History since 1900, "for his brilliant analysis of the troubled history of 20th century Europe and for his ability to combine in-depth historical research with great literary talent."
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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...
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Italian). Retrieved 12 September 2023. EricHobsbawm, "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914," in EricHobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention...
of the era. The expression was popularized by the British historian EricHobsbawm in his book The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, published in 1962...
deployed against him. He was murdered on 5 July 1950. The historian EricHobsbawm described him as the last of the "people's bandits" (à la Robin Hood)...
Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg and later popularized by British historian EricHobsbawm. The term refers to the notion that the period reflects a progression...
Jones was later buried beside Karl Marx's tomb. The Marxist historian EricHobsbawm remarked: "One cannot say Marx died a failure." Although he had not...
the 1983 book The Invention of Tradition, edited by EricHobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Hobsbawm's introduction argues that many "traditions" which "appear...
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desirable archetypes that was presented as immoral or unethical women). EricHobsbawm argued that, as globalization turns the entire planet into an increasingly...
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his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, EricHobsbawm and Perry Anderson. Miliband was born in Belgium to working-class Polish...
MP John McDonnell. At one point he was also hired by the historian EricHobsbawm to index and archive his papers. Jones is a weekly columnist for The...
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conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made." Historian EricHobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which...
the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq EricHobsbawm, historian Austin Holyoake, printer, publisher, freethinker and brother...
modernist interpretations of Anderson and another Marxist historian, EricHobsbawm for restricting the emergence of nationalism to the modern period and...
1946 until 1956, notable members included Thompson, Christopher Hill, EricHobsbawm, Raphael Samuel, as well as non-academics like A. L. Morton and Brian...
of India, which were already observing the proto-industrialization. EricHobsbawm held that it "broke out" in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the...
beginning in the early modern period. Proponents of this theory, such as EricHobsbawm, argue that ethnicity and notions of ethnic pride, such as nationalism...
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