Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History Richard J. Evans

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190459646
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190459642
• Author: Richard J. Evans

Eric Hobsbawm’s works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931. Living with an uncle in Berlin, he experienced the full force of world economic depression, and in the charged reaction to it in Germany was forced to choose between Nazism and Communism, which was no choice at all. Hobsbawm’s lifelong allegiance to Communism inspired his pioneering work in social history, particularly the trilogy for which he is most famous–The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire–covering what he termed “the long nineteenth century” in Europe. Selling in the millions of copies, these held sway among generations of readers, some of whom went on to have prominent careers in politics and business.

Table contents:

1. ‘The English Boy’ 1917–1933
2. ‘Ugly as Sin, but a Mind’ 1933–1936
3. ‘A Freshman who Knows About Everything’ 1936–1939
4. ‘A Left-Wing Intellectual in the English Army’ 1939–1946
5. ‘Outsider in the Movement’ 1946–1954
6. ‘A Dangerous Character’ 1954–1962
7. ‘Paperback Writer’ 1962–1975
8. ‘Intellectual Guru’ 1975–1987
9. ‘Jeremiah’ 1987–1999
10. ‘National Treasure’ 1999–2012
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

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