Eric John Hobsbawm

Standard Name: Hobsbawm, Eric John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
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, No. 20, 25 Oct. 2012, p. 12.
Reviews throughout her career have been mostly appreciative, even celebratory. Christian Lorentzen struck an unwonted splenetic note...

Timeline

23-26 June 1848: An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris...

National or international item

23-26 June 1848

An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris was defeated and the workers were massacred.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Historian Eric Hobsbawm gives higher figures for those killed and punished, saying that 3,000 of those who fought...

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

National or international item

By summer 1957

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.
Anderson, Perry. “The Age of EJH”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 3-7.
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Laqueur, Thomas. “Lectures about Heaven”. London Review of Books, 7 June 2007, pp. 3-8.
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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.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984.