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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Organisation. Born in 1964 in London, England, Julia Hobsbawm is the daughter of historian Eric Hobsbawm and music teacher Marlene Schwarz, both European...
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2002) June 9 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British historian (d. 2012) June 10 – Ruari McLean, Scottish-born...
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Richard J. Evans (section Hobsbawm lecture)
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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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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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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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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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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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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ISBN 978-1107092846. Hobsbawm 2011, pp. 104–105. Hobsbawm 2011, p. 105. Hobsbawm 2011, pp. 105–106. Hobsbawm 2011, p. 106. Hobsbawm 2011, p. 107. "Seven...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Social banditry (section Hobsbawm's theory)
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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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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politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2009) 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012) 1918 – John Hospers...
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the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq Eric Hobsbawm (ashes), historian Austin Holyoake, printer, publisher, freethinker...
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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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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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Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1935) 2012 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (born 1917) 2012 – Mark R. Kravitz...
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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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his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson. Miliband was born in Belgium to working-class Polish...
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The Age of Extremes (category Books by Eric Hobsbawm)
The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures...
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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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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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desirable archetypes that was presented as immoral or unethical women). Eric Hobsbawm argued that, as globalization turns the entire planet into an increasingly...
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