ISBN: 9781408707418 - eric hobsbawm: a life in history (6 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 800 pages. ex-library At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fif ty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain a nd the United States. His writings have had a huge and lasting effect on the pra ctice of history. More than half a century after it appeared, his books remain a staple of university reading lists.He had an extraordinarily long life, with interests covering many countries and many cultures, ranging from poetry to jazz, literature to politics. He experienced life not only as a university teac her but also as a young Communist in the Weimar Republic, a radical student at C ambridge, a political activist, an army conscript, a Soho 'man about town', a Ha mpstead intellectual, a Cambridge don, an influential journalist, a world travel ler, and finally a Grand Old Man of Letters.In A LIFE IN HISTORY, Richard Evans tells the story of Hobsbawm as an academic, but also as witness to histor y itself, and of the twentieth century's major political and intellectual curren ts. Eric not only wrote and spoke about many of the great issues of his time, bu t participated in many of them too, from Communist resistance to Hitler to revol ution in Cuba, where he acted as an interpreter for Fidel Castro. He was a promi nent part of the Jazz scene in Soho in the late 1950s and his writings played a pivotal role in the emergence of New Labour in the late 1980s and early 1990s.This, the first biography of Eric Hobsbawm, is far more than a study of a p rofessional historian. It is a study of an era.…