Eric Hobsbawm: 16 books

Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.”...

From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history,...

In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium. With his usual measured and brilliant historical...

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism...

“Este es un libro –nos dice Eric Hobsbawm- sobre lo que les sucedió al arte y a la cultura de la sociedad burguesa una vez esta sociedad desapareció, en la generación posterior a 1914”. Su destrucción se produjo como consecuencia de los efectos combinados de la revolución en la ciencia...

En su autobiografía Años interesantes. Una vida en el siglo XX, Eric Hobsbawm escribió que América Latina era la única región del mundo fuera de Europa donde se sentía realmente en casa. Siempre se sintió atraído por el potencial de la revolución social en América Latina: después del triunfo...

“What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from...

İki dünya savaşı ve ardından yaşanan Soğuk Savaş'ın damgasını vurduğu "Kısa Yirminci Yüzyıl"ın bitiminin habercisi, Sovyetler Birliği'nin çöküşü ile serbest piyasa fundamentalizminin iflası oldu. Bu yüzyılda kapitalist ekonominin sıkça yaşadığı krizlere, 90'lardaki...

While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equalled the breadth or insight of this seminal text, one of the first to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, employs a nuanced knowledge...

Escrito en 1848 por dos revolucionarios de 28 y 30 años, olvidado o revitalizado según el momento histórico, el Manifiesto Comunista se irradió por todo el globo y se tradujo a todas las lenguas, excediendo largamente la esfera del movimiento obrero y las izquierdas. Incluso después del fin del...

What was the French Revolution? Was it the triumph of Enlightenment humanist principles, or a violent reign of terror? Did it empower the common man, or just the bourgeoisie? And was it a turning point in world history, or a mere anomaly?   E.J. Hobsbawm’s classic historiographic study—written...

The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, from one of the greatest historians of our age. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play—and...