Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Historian of the Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire and Extremes
1917, Alexandria, Egypt — 2012, London, England
United Kingdom
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Hobsbawm was one of the most widely read historians of the twentieth century, author of the 'Age of' tetralogy — The Age of Revolution, of Capital, of Empire and of Extremes — which narrated the making of the modern world from 1789 to 1991. A Marxist scholar based at Birkbeck, University of London, his work shaped historical writing worldwide. He was born to Jewish parents and identified as Jewish throughout his life.
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Historian of the Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire and Extremes
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