Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was born in Egypt in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes as well as On History, Uncommon People, Industry and Empire, Bandits, On the Edge of the New Century, Revolutionaries, On Empire, Fractured Times, and his memoir Interesting Times (The New Press).

News and Reviews

New York Times

A review of Fractured Times in The New York Times

Books by Eric Hobsbawm

Bandits

Eric Hobsbawm

Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm

Industry and Empire
The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life

Eric Hobsbawm

On Empire
America, War, and Global Supremacy

Eric Hobsbawm

On History

Eric Hobsbawm

Revolutionaries

Eric Hobsbawm

Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm