Eric John Hobsbawm

Standard Name: Hobsbawm, Eric John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Alice Munro
In Britain an eager admiration of her was shared by editor Karl Miller and historian Eric Hobsbawm .
Miller, Karl. “Eric Hobsbawm”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 20, p. 12.
Reviews throughout her career have been mostly appreciative, even celebratory. Christian Lorentzen struck an unwonted splenetic note...
Literary responses Harriette Wilson
Admiration of HW as a writer united historian Eric Hobsbawm and editor Karl Miller . Miller judged the memoirs a well-written serious work, as much a work of social history, a study of class and...

Timeline

By : The British Communist Party had been severely...

National or international item

By summer1957

The British Communist Party had been severely reduced in numbers in face of anxieties about the political behaviour of the Soviet Union following the Hungarian Revolution of the previous October-November.

Texts

Hobsbawm, Eric John. “C (for Crisis)”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 15, pp. 12-13.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
Engels, Friedrich, and Eric John Hobsbawm. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Granada, 1969.