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		Eric Hobsbawm was born to middle-class Jewish parents in Alexandria, Egypt on June 9, 1917.
		It was from this vantage-point that Hobsbawm applauded the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939.
		For Hobsbawm, Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 was a horror that sullied the October revolution and its dream.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1588 (815 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dr Eric John Blair Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author.
		Hobsbawm was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group.
		Hobsbawm (a clerical error altered Eric's name [1]) was born in 1917 as child of Leopold Percy Hobsbaum and Nelly Grün, both jewish, in Alexandria, Egypt, and he grew up in Vienna and Berlin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm (1173 words)

	The Age of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm) - book review
		Eric Hobsbawm has produced a superb overview of the middle three-quarters of the 20th century.
		Hobsbawm's own area of specialisation is the nineteenth century and Age of Extremes is based almost entirely on secondary sources, the limitations of which are occasionally visible.
		Hobsbawm's own interests and biases are also obvious: most obviously, not everyone would have devoted so much space to socialism (and some consider him insufficiently "anti-communist", despite his incisive forensic analysis of the failures and disasters of communist regimes).
	dannyreviews.com /h/Age_Extremes.html (293 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm: lying to the credulous by David Pryce-Jones
		As an active and declared Communist, Hobsbawm remained unpromoted in the ranks throughout the war, and was kept stationed in the country.
		Hobsbawm was a contemporary at King’s of James Klugmann, already then a Communist, and later a member of the British party’s Politburo.
		Hobsbawm shows the consistent Communist animus against Zionism and Israel, losing no chance to sneer on that score about “the small, militarist, culturally disappointing and politically aggressive nation-state which asks for my solidarity on racial grounds.” He boasts of a visit to Bir Zeit University on the West Bank to display solidarity with the Palestinians.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/jan03/hobsbawm.htm (2801 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Arts & Humanities \| Profile: Eric Hobsbawm
		Eric's mother, Nelly Grün, was the daughter of a "moderately prosperous Viennese jeweller".
		Hobsbawm was a member of the Communist party historians' group of 1946-56, which included EP Thompson and Christopher Hill, and in 1952 he co-founded the influential journal, Past and Present, whose contributors included many non-Marxists.
		Hobsbawm says he felt relief at the fall of the Berlin Wall, though he sees conditions in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union as an "unbelievable economic and social tragedy".
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,791760,00.html (3547 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Eric the Red
		Hobsbawm, they charge, is just a sentimental old man who refuses to acknowledge the bestial horrors that were done in the name of "building socialism." One critic even speculated that the historian found in communism a way to "revenge" his self-loathing at his ungainly appearance.
		Hobsbawm doesn't detail the well-known crimes of Lenin and Stalin, but neither is he a man still blinded by his erstwhile faith.
		Hobsbawm concludes his autobiography with a plea to fellow leftists mired in a conservative age: "Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40171-2003Jul24?language=printer (987 words)

	Interests
		Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria to a middle-class Jewish family in June 1917.
		Hobsbawm's parents both died during the Depression and he and his sister were taken in by his uncle, who worked for a Berlin branch of a Hollywood, USA, based firm.
		Hobsbawm's later writings display a general pessimism and estrangement, arising from his sense of how far humanity had slipped from the nineteenth century and its expectations of civility and human progress.
	home.uchicago.edu /~moon/hobsbawm.htm (1009 words)

	Balzan Foundation - Eric Hobsbawm, U.K.: a portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eric Hobsbawm is one of the greatest contemporary historians.
		A historian of the nineteenth century, Hobsbawm focused on the "very long century", for which he placed the beginning in 1789 and the end in 1914, an important trilogy: The Age of Revolution 1779-1848; The Age of Capital 1848-1875; The Age of Empire 1875-1914.
		Hobsbawm also directed his interests to the history of the labour movement (Labouring Men), to different historical manifestations of social revolt (Primitive Rebels; Bandits, Revolutionaries) and to the genesis of nationalistic ideologies (Nations and Nationalism).
	www.balzan.com /en/preistraeger/hobsbawm.cfm (215 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hobsbawm’s father, a British subject and the son of a cabinetmaker of Polish-Jewish ancestry, was a failed tradesman; his mother, an Austro-Hungarian subject, was a novelist.
		Hobsbawm recounts that on his first trip to the United States, in 1960, he abandoned Stanford’s Palo Alto for San Francisco’s hip North Beach, then drove to Chicago and met the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (and her onetime press agent Studs Terkel).
		With a Marxist—or was it Annaliste?—sense of the “totality” of experience, Hobsbawm related innovations in the arts and in the sciences to the economic “demand” of this ascending new class, both the cause and the consequence of political change.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/030929crbo_books (2844 words)

	Carlin/Birchall: Eric Hobsbawm and the working class (1983)
		It was this, and not a belief in the self-activity of the working-class, that drew Hobsbawm to Marxism.
		Hobsbawm, however, shrewdly recognised that, in the period after 1956, a new and as yet non-Party left – in many cases to the left of the CP itself – was emerging, and that it would have some part to play in the left’s eventual re-alignment.
		Hobsbawm himself frequently evokes the power of this sense of belonging to a mass international movement, not without a certain romanticism, as when he recalls ‘that sense of total devotion which made the party in Auschwitz make its members pay their dues in cigarettes (inconceivably precious and almost impossible to obtain in an extermination camp)’.
	www.marxists.de /workmvmt/birchcarl/hobsbawm.htm (9904 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm Speaks on His New Memoir, UCLA International Institute
		The world famous historian Eric J. Hobsbawm was an honored guest of UCLA's Center for European and Eurasian Studies January 29 for a talk and discussion of his best-selling memoir, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (Knopf, August 2003).
		Eric Hobsbawm: The first thing to understand is that I grew up living under a volcano which was in the middle of erupting.
		Hobsbawm: The central fact, I think, of twentieth century history is that at a crucial stage in the early forties liberal capitalism and communism made common cause against Hitler Germany and its allies, against fascism.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=7315 (8410 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		'''Eric Hobsbawm''' (born June 9, 1917) is a British historian and author, earlier the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain.
		Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria and grew up in Vienna and Berlin.
		Hobsbawm has written extensively on a broad and diverse selection of subjects during the course of his illustrious career as Britain’s' most cosmopolitan and internationally renowned Historian.
	eric-hobsbawm.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (485 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm historian Age of Revolution Capital Empire Extremes
		Hobsbawm applied for a series of Oxbridge jobs, and was 'turned down right, left and centre' He fetched up instead, happily, at Birkbeck where the student body was part-time, lectures were held in the evenings and the challenge among the faculty was to keep its audience awake in the graveyard slot between eight and nine.
		Hobsbawm, by all accounts, achieved this effortlessly and sustained his intellectual energy after hours.
		If Marxism no longer supplies Hobsbawm with a political vision, neither is it for him simply a theory of historical development, the best tool to be found for making sense of the past.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/historian/Eric_Hobsbawm.html (1057 words)

	Amazon.de: The Age of Revolution: English Books: Eric J. Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hobsbawm is a well-known Marxist, but it was the events of this age that spawned Marxism, and it behooves us to understand why that was.
		Though it was originally published in 1962, Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution still can be considered one of the most astute and authoritative analyses of the French and Industrial Revolutions.
		Certainly, some readers are critical of Hobsbawm for his Marxist tendancies, but these crtics generally are serving their instinctual prejudices rather than maintaining an adherence to objective reasoning.
	www.amazon.de /Age-Revolution-Eric-J-Hobsbawm/dp/0679772537 (754 words)

	Amazon.ca: On the Edge of the New Century: Books: Eric Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this book, Hobsbawm does a pretty good job of fleshing out general trends (like the decline of the nation-state, the rise of private rogue armies, the burgeoning service economy) and placing these within his now standard historical framework; but the book is lacking in many respects.
		Hobsbawm gives some analysis of multinational corporations and their effects on global labor and environmental issues, but it seems very topographical, like the rest of the book.
		Hobsbawm's reflections are the result of sevral interviews with Antonio Polito, the London correspondent of La Repubbilica, perhaps the (and left oriented) Italian daily newspaper.
	www.amazon.ca /Edge-New-Century-Eric-Hobsbawm/dp/1565846036 (1164 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm - David Higham Associates
		Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria and grew up in Vienna and Berlin in the l930s.
		Born in Alexandria he grew up in Vienna until the death of both his parents caused him to be sent to live with an uncle in Berlin and so he saw throughout his adolescence the events of the 1930s unfolding.
		Eric Hobsbawm is one of our most distinguished historians.
	www.davidhigham.co.uk /html/Clients/Eric_Hobsbawm (198 words)

	The Nationalism Project: Eric Hobsbawm on nations and nationalism
		NOTE: Eric Hobsbawm is one of the best known historians of the Twentieth Century.
		In addition to many books on a variety of topics, Hobsbawm has written two important texts dealing with the subject of nationalism.
		Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780.
	www.nationalismproject.org /what/hobsbawm.htm (1517 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Age of Extremes, by Eric Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...Hobsbawm confesses in the preface that "I have accumulated views and prejudices about [the 20th century] as a contemporary rather than as a scholar," and "avoided working on the era...
		...We are, as Hobsbawm sees it, in a hell of a mess, for the technological power and acidic individualism unleashed by capitalism now threaten to destroy the planet, while democracy has become a formula for gridlock...
		...Hobsbawm's sole source for this shocker is an American Communist who quoted Stalin to the effect that "we will not raise the issue of socialism in such a form and manner as to endanger or weaken.
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V100I2P58-1.htm (1752 words)

	Amazon.fr : Revolutionaries: Livres en anglais: Eric J. Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now back in print after thirty years, Revolutionaries is vintage Hobsbawm, written masterfully amid one of the century's most intense periods of political and social upheaval, putting those events in historical context.
		Few observers were as astute as Hobsbawm at probing, criticizing, and clarifying radical movements, whether in Beijing or Berkeley.
		Hobsbawm's essays retain a freshness that speaks both to his brilliance as a writer and scholar, as well as to the perennial importance of his subjects.
	www.amazon.fr /Revolutionaries-Eric-J-Hobsbawm/dp/1565846982 (379 words)

	Age Of Extremes defies French censors, by Eric Hobsbawm
		It was Hobsbawm’s ideas that were in question, in particular his unrepentant position on the left.
		With France having undergone a long period of ’Stalinisation’ from which it had finally emerged, it was felt that the ideological and intellectual climate was not right for its publication.
		Eric Hobsbawn cultivates this attachment to the revolutionary cause, even if at a distance, as a point of pride … But in France at this moment, it goes down badly" (3).
	mondediplo.com /1999/12/05hobsbawm (1498 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| The lion of the Left
		Talking to Hobsbawm now, at 83, his mind still in edgy overdrive, his body language made for compelling awkwardness, you have a strong sense of the history that he has measured on his own pulse.
		Hobsbawm's parents both died during the Depression and he and his sister were taken in by his uncle, who worked for a Hollywood firm in Berlin.
		In some ways, Hobsbawm still views the world as the semi-detached, cold warrior he was then, or at least the legacy of that rhetoric continues to inflect his memories.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,425863,00.html (1503 words)

	LINKSNET - Linkslog - Eric Hobsbawm zu Karl Marx
		März 2006 mit Jacques Attali über Karl Marx: "Eric Hobsbawm, the pre-eminent historian and avowed communist, debated the role of Karl Marx in the 21st century with the one-time international banker Jacques Attali.
		In a sense, the Soviet Union was destroying or interrupting the validity of Marx's thinking and the fall of the Berlin Wall is giving back a raison d'etre to his work, because Marx was thinking of the world globally and the Soviet system was a nightmare that he did not forecast.
		Hobsbawm: We now have the realisation of some of what Marx anticipated: a globalised economy.
	www.linksnet.de /linkslog/index.php?itemid=378 (1457 words)

	Eric Hobsbawm - L'Humanité in English
		But Hobsbawm remains constant in his opposition to what he has fought against all his life: fascism; exploitation of the lower classes; colonialism; social oppression and inequality; ethnocentric nationalism—which he likens to Zionism; the hypocrisy of the wealthy; the arrogance of the self-proclaimed elite, etc.
		Eric Hobsbawm was born in 1917, in Alexandria, Egypt, into a family of impoverished Jewish petit bourgeois, of British nationality on the father’s side, Austrian on the mother’s.
		France (especially Paris—a microcosm of all of France for Hobsbawm, which is not true for his friend Richard Cobb, who adored the provinces)—France, for which he shows such unique tenderness, deploring botched architecture, which led, according to him, to the (excessive) ambitions of Pompidou followed by the megalomania of Mitterand.
	www.humaniteinenglish.com /article.php3?id_article=59 (1495 words)

	Coddling a Cuddly Communist Historian -- August 26, 2003
		Hobsbawm was ‘someone who has steadily corrupted knowledge into propaganda’ and that his Communism had ‘destroyed him as an interpreter of events.’ ‘Interesting Times’ has gathered mostly glowing reviews across Britain.
		The “angry” Pryce-Jones indeed criticizes Hobsbawm, noting the historian defended the 1956 Soviet onslaught on Hungary in a letter to the Communist Daily Worker.
		Hobsbawm has somehow maintained his belief in human resilience, in man's ability to live through the most appalling personal and public tragedies and still go on.
	www.timeswatch.org /articles/2003/0826.asp (1520 words)

	Amazon.com: Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (Vintage): Books: Eric Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hobsbawm moves skillfully through a variety of topics, e.g., the roots of feminism, scientific change, the rise of the working class, and the race for overseas acquisitions.
		Hobsbawm assumes a basic knowledge of what happened during the period in question, so avoid this book if you are looking for a simple narrative.
		Hobsbawm is not able to be optimistic in his conclusions, but he does at least manage to be sanguine.
	www.amazon.com /Age-Empire-1875-1914-Eric-Hobsbawm/dp/0679721754 (2424 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Interesting Times by Eric Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...Hobsbawm formally joined the Communist party in 1936 while a student at Cambridge, when the USSR stood on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror...
		...This is as true of Hobsbawm the historian as it is of Hobsbawm the memoirist...
		...Eric Hobsbawm (originally Hobsbaum), the English historian who, until his retirement, taught at Birkbeck College of the University of London, is such an unrepentant Communist...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V115I4P65-1.htm (2175 words)

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