Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Hobsbawm (born the June 9th 1917) is a British historian famous, Marxist. He was the theorist of the Communist party of Great Britain. Eric Hobsbawm worked also much on the question of the Nation S and the Nationalisme S in Europe with the XIX {{E}} and with the XX {{E}} centuries like about the invention of the Tradition S by the nations.

Biography

Born with Alexandria parents Jewish S, it grows with Vienna (1920) then with Berlin (1931-1933) where its family lived the first persecutions anti-semites. He moved with London in 1933 and studied with the St Marylebone Grammar School as with the King' S College of Cambridge where he obtained Ph.D. of Histoire. He adhered in 1936 to the English Communist party. He taught the history with the Birkbeck College of the university of London starting from 1947 as an university lecturer. In 1956, it protested against the Soviet invasion of the Hungary and preferred to adhere to the Italian Communist party. In 1970, it obtained the post of professor and entered in 1976 to the British Academy. In the Eighties, he collaborated with the review Marxism Today and supported the projects of modernization of the Labor Party of Neil Kinnock.

Its work

Eric Hobsbawm will have covered subjects various and varied during his career of historian. As a Marxist historian, it carried out an analysis specifies " revolution duelle" (i.e. the simultaneity of the Revolution S political in economic France and in England) and their effects on the prevalent tendencies which lead to current the liberal Capitalisme .

Because of the opinions of its author, the book the Age of the extremes , appeared in England in 1994, failed never not to be translated into France. As explains it Pierre Nora editions Gallimard, all the editors “gladly badly liking, are well obliged to take account of the intellectual and ideological economic situation in which their production fits”. Always according to the French historian, this book appeared in a context of hostility to Communism: “the attachment, even distancié, to the revolutionary cause” on behalf of Eric Hobsbawm, “in France, and this moment, it passes badly”. The American historian Tony Judt proposes another analysis: the fact that the Age of the extremes left little before great success François Furet, the Past of an illusion , “much in conformity with the Parisian tastes in its manner of treating Soviet Communism”, made “hesitate the French editors to leave a work like that Hobsbawm”.

Eric Hobsbawm was also interested in the Banditisme, which it presents like a phenomenon depend on the social context and history. He is opposed thus to the belief which the outlaws appear spontaneously and in an unforeseeable way. He published finally many tests on subjects going of modern cruelty to the problems of the labor movements while passing through the eternal conflict between Anarchisme and Communisme.

Apart from its contributions of historian, he wrote in the New Statesman under the name of Francis Newton as a criticism of Jazz.

Publications

the Primitive ones of the revolt in modern Europe , Beech, " History without frontières" , 1963 (ED. original: Primitive Rebels , 1959).
the Era of the revolutions: 1789-1848 , Beech, 1970; Editions Complexes, 1988 (ED. original: Old The off Revolution , 1962).
the Gangsters , Maspero, 1972 (ED. original: Gangsters , 1968).
Eric Hobsbawm and Hard George, Captain Swing .
the Era of the capital: 1848-1875 , Beech, 1978, republication 1994; Hatchet, 1997 (ED. original: Old The off Capital , 1975).
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence To arrange (to dir.), the Invention of the tradition , Editions Amsterdam, Paris, 2006 (ED. original: The Invention off Tradition , 1983).
the Era of the empires: 1875-1914 , Beech, 1989; Hatchet, 1997 (ED. original: Old The off Empire , 1987).
Nations and nationalisms since 1780: programs, myth and reality , Gallimard, 1992 (ED. original: Nations and Nationalism , 1990).
the Age of the extremes: the court 20th century 1914-1991 , diplomatic co-edition Le Monde - Editions Complexes, 1999 (ED. original: Old The off Extreme , 1994).
Magnum in the world , Hazan, 1998.
the Stakes of the 20th century , discussion with Antonio Polito, Éditions Complexes, 2000.
the committed historian , Éditions of the Paddle, 2000.
Eric Hobsbawm and Antoine Spire, the Optimism of the will , editions the Edge of water, 2003.
Franc-tireur, Autobiographie , Paris, Ramsey, 2005 (ED. original: Interesting Times , 2002).
With the weapons, historians. Two centuries of history of the French revolution , new postface of the author, translated from English by Julien Louvrier, Paris, the Discovery, 2007,154p. (ED. original: Echoes off the Marseilles. Two Centuries Back Look one the French Revolution, London, Back, 1990)

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