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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...
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  • modernization scholars, such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm, say nationalism arose with modernization during the late 18th century...
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    1964 in London, England, Julia Hobsbawm is the daughter of historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, both European emigres. She grew up...
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    and Italian. He has written a biography on the historian Eric Hobsbawm entitled Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History. From 2013 to 2018 he was principal investigator...
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  • Yale University Press. Hobsbawm, Eric (1962). The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Hobsbawm, Eric (1987). The Age of Empire:...
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    have rushed to finish the job in time. For evidence of this, historian Eric Hobsbawm points to the absence of rough drafts, only one page of which survives...
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  • Bandits (book) (category Books by Eric Hobsbawm)
    Bandits is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1969 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and re-issued in revised and expanded form in 1981 by Pantheon Books...
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    of the era. The expression was popularized by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm in his book The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, published in 1962...
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  • Ilya Ehrenburg[dead link] and later popularized by British historian Eric Hobsbawm. The concept is an adaption of Fernand Braudel's 1949 notion of le long...
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    conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made." Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which...
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    the 1983 book The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Hobsbawm's introduction argues that many "traditions" which "appear...
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    invented by the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and introduced in his books Primitive Rebels (1959) and Bandits (1969). Hobsbawm characterized social banditry...
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    deployed against him. He was murdered on 5 July 1950. The historian Eric Hobsbawm described him as the last of the "people's bandits" (à la Robin Hood)...
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    Marx's original tomb had only humble adornment. The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked: "One cannot say Marx died a failure." Although he had not...
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    Charlie Hutchison Gerry Healy Eric Heffer Margot Heinemann Mike Hicks Jim Higgins Christopher Hill Jeanne Hoban Eric Hobsbawm David Holbrook Edward Hollamby...
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  • Primitive Rebels (category Books by Eric Hobsbawm)
    Primitive Rebels is a 1959 book by Eric Hobsbawm on pre-modern European social movements and social banditry. The book was originally published by Manchester...
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    Shaw-Taylor, Britain was already industrialising in the 17th century. Eric Hobsbawm held that the Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 1780s and...
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    attributed to their violent and radical rebellion tactics. Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm observes that the sans-culottes were a "shapeless, mostly urban movement...
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  • 1946 until 1956, notable members included Thompson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Raphael Samuel, as well as non-academics like A. L. Morton and Brian...
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    by the Anglo-Czech author Tom Stoppard, the character Max, based on Eric Hobsbawm, discusses with Stephen what to read to hear what is happening in the...
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  • ISBN 0-679-72175-4. Eric Foner (2002). Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863–1877. HarperCollins. p. 535. ISBN 0-06-093716-5. Eric Hobsbawm (1989)...
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  • Echoes of the Marseillaise (category Books by Eric Hobsbawm)
    Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution is a book by Eric Hobsbawm first published in 1990 by Verso Books. It was written just after the...
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    Hobsbawm, Eric (17 February 2007). "The Spanish civil war united a generation of young writers, poets and artists in political fervour, says Eric Hobsbawm"...
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    many immigrants speak another tongue at home. According to historian Eric Hobsbawm, "the French language has been essential to the concept of 'France'...
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  • The dual revolution was a term first coined by Eric Hobsbawm. It refers specifically to the time period between 1789 and 1848 in which the political and...
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  • by Eric Hobsbawm (1990) Doyle, p. 102. Schama, Simon. Citizens. Quoted in: Davies, Norman. Europe: A History. Pimlico (1997), p. 690. Hobsbawm, Eric. Echoes...
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    Gruyter. p. 956. ISBN 3-11-010389-3. Eric Hobsbawm, "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914," in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention...
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    unpersuasive and containing contradictory claims. Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm had praised Ferguson as an excellent historian but criticised him as...
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  • with the Communist Party Historians Group. Citing the reflections of Eric Hobsbawm, a contemporary of Thompson's and a fellow member of the Historians'...
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    from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, extends from the French Revolution to the brink of World War I. Throughout...
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