Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.

Works

• Primitive Rebels, Manchester University Press, 1959; repr. as Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels, Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960; 3rd ed., Manchester University Press, 1971; repr., intro. Owen Jones, Abacus, 2017.
  • Les Primitifs de la révolte dans l'Europe moderne, Paris: Fayard, 1959. (French)
  • Sozialrebellen. Archaische Sozialbewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, trans. Renate Müller-Isenburg and Charles Barry Hyams, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1962. (German)
  • Primitivní rebelové, trans. Martin Štefl, Prague: Academia, 2023, 340 pp. Publisher. Review: Raška (Alarm). (Czech)

• The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962; repr., Orion, 2010.

• The Age of Capital: 1848–1875, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; repr., Orion, 2010. [1]

• editor, with Terence O. Ranger, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 1983.

• The Age of Empire: 1875–1914, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987; repr., Orion, 2010.

• The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, Abacus, 1994.

• On History, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997; repr., Phoenix, 2011.

• Behind the Times: The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardes, London: Thames & Hudson, 1998, 48 pp. Reviews: Seddon (JDH), Plawiuk (Fifty3).

• Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz, 1998. [2]

• Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism, 2007.

• On Empire, 2008.

• How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840–2011, Yale University Press, 2011.

Literature

• McKenzie Wark, "Undeletable Text: Eric Hobsbawm", boundary 2 43:2, 2016, pp 125-140.

• Joseph Fronczak, "Hobsbawm’s Long Century", Jacobin, 9 Jun 2017.

• Ondřej Bělíček, "Eric Hobsbawm: Kdo byl nejslavnější marxistický historik 20. století?", Alarm, 8 Jul 2019. (Czech)

Links

• ARG
• Wikipedia