These 16 specially chosen essays sum up the views of the historian Eric Hobsbawm on history and history-writing. They reveal a passionate belief in the importance of studying history and reflect his life-long concerns, like the importance of social and cultural history alongside political history.
On History Summary
On History by E. J. Hobsbawm
The theory and practice of history and its relevance to the modern world, by Britains greatest radical historian.
About E. J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York. All his books have been translated into several languages.
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