Eric J Hobsbawm

Professor Eric J Hobsbawm  (1917–2012)

Eric J. Hobsbawm, who died on Monday(01-10-2012) at the age of 95, was the most influential Marxist historian of the contemporary age and one of the greatest and most encyclopaedic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. He had an extraordinary mastery of detail of historical events and contemporary politics, especially when these concerned the Left.Hobsbawm was perhaps the last survivor of the Communist Historians’ Group in Britain which made a seminal contribution to the writing of history.

SUMMARY

A member of the Communist Party Historians Group, Hobsbawm played a major part in the founding of the seminal journal Past and Present. He is particularly noted for taking a Marxist approach to the production of an extremely popular series of 'total' histories of the modern world.

Forenames:            Eric J.

Surname:                Hobsbawm

Title:                       Professor

Dates:                     1917–

Institutions:           Communist Party Historians Group (now Socialist History Society)                                  

                               Past and Present
                               University of London (Birkbeck College).

Significant posts:   President, University of London (Birkbeck College)
                               Professor of History, University of London (Birkbeck College).

Influences:             Marx, Karl.

Contemporaries:    Hill, John Edward Christopher
                               Hilton, Rodney Howard
                               Kiernan, Victor
                              Thompson, Edward Palmer

Themes:                 Contemporary history
                              Economic history
                              History from below
                              Labour history
                              Marxist history
                              Social history

Biographies:          Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
                              Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
                              Interviews with Historians.

Bibliography:      Bibliography from Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).

Significant publications

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (London, 1962)                              Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (London, 1975)                              Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (London, 1987)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914–1991 (London, 1994).

Other reading

Christopher Hill, R. H. Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm, 'Past and Present: origins and early years', Past and Present, 100 (1983), 3–14

David Renton, 'Studying their own nation without insularity? The British Marxist historians reconsidered', Science and Society, 69, 4 (2005), 559–79

For more Details:-

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/historian-in-the-marxist-tradition-with-a-global-reach/article3955931.ece

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/arts/eric-hobsbawm-british-historian-dies-at-95.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://journalogy.net/Author/34235829/eric-j-hobsbawm

Download his Books From the link below:-

http://en.bookfi.org/book/1133038

http://en.bookfi.org/book/1205768

http://en.bookfi.org/book/1173259

http://en.bookfi.org/book/834580

http://en.bookfi.org/book/830758

http://en.bookfi.org/book/833583

http://en.bookfi.org/book/797371

http://en.bookfi.org/book/1144672