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Eric Hobsbawm

Also known as Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, Obstbaum, E.J. Hobsbawm

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)

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Eric Hobsbawm was a British historian (1917–2012) who wrote influential works on European history and applied Marxist ideas to the study of the past. He matters because his books shaped how scholars and educated readers understand major historical periods and social movements, though his work has remained controversial due to his Marxist perspective.

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Born: 9 June 1917
Died: 1 October 2012
Works: 220

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The transition from feudalism to capitalism
Sozialrebellen
Communist cartoons
Social bandits and primitive rebels;
Industry And Empire

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1963-06-12

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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism. His best-known works include his trilogy about the long 19th century (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875; The Age of Empire: 1875–1914), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume which introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+

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Quotes

“The love affair between intellectuals and Marxism which is so characteristic of our age developed relatively late in western Europe, though in Russia itself it began in Marx's own lifetime.”
“First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”
“[H]istorians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to the heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. So my profession, which has always been mixed up in politics, becomes an essential component of nationalism.”
“Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.”
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.”
“As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.”

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Image: Eminent Historian Professor Eric Hobsbawm at the interactive session with the students of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia in New Delhi on December 21, 2004.jpg

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date of birth: 1917-06-09
date of death: 2012-10-01
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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (/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". He was a life-long Marxist, and his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.

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. 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."