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The Age of Hobsbawm : The Life of a Revolutionary Historian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chabal, Emile.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Formations
- 2. Apprenticeship
- Berlin, London, Cambridge
- The Popular Front
- The Communist International
- Becoming a Historian
- History at Cambridge
- Studying Colonialism in North Africa
- The Apostles
- 3. The Making of a Historian
- Comrades in War and Peace
- Central European Exiles in London
- The Communist Party Historians Group
- The Cultural Cold War
- 1956: "A Collective Nervous Breakdown
- Economic History
- Paris in the 1950s
- The Discovery of Italian Communism
- 4. The Academic
- The Art of Teaching
- The Birkbeck Years
- The New School Years
- Past and Present and the Editor's Craft
- Shaping the Field
- Legacies
- Selling Hobsbawm
- Finding Fame
- 5. Writing History
- Labour History
- Social History and Peasant Studies
- Worlds of Labour
- Total History
- From the Age of Capital to the Age of Empire
- Age of Extremes
- 6. Culture and Criticism
- The Fashioning of a Critical Voice
- Communism, Culture, and Jazz
- Jazz: A Popular Music?
- A Social History of Jazz
- Culture and History
- The End of Art
- 7. The Traveller
- Franco's Spain
- Italy Through Communist Eyes
- The Cuban Revolution
- The Rockefeller Trip
- The Latin Americanist
- India: Colonialism and the Subaltern
- The Celebrity Socialist in Brazil
- 8. The Later Hobsbawm
- Historicising Nationalism
- Rewriting the Nationalist Canon
- "The Forward March of Labour Halted
- A New Popular Front?
- The End of the Cold War
- Hobsbawm's Ego-Histoire
- The Limits of Autobiography
- 9. The Two Hobsbawms
- Bibliographical Note
- Interviews
- Archives
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30539-6
- 0-674-30538-8
- OCLC:
- 1590085633
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