Richard J. Evans
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
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At the time of his death in 2012 at the age of ninety-five, EricHobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translatedinto more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and India ashe was in Britain and the United States. His interests stretched across manycountries and cultures, ranging from poetry to jazz, literature to politics. Hewas a young Communist in the Weimar Republic, a radical student in Cambridge,an army conscript, a Soho 'man about town', a Hampstead intellectual, aCambridge don, an influential journalist, a world traveller, and finally aGrand Old Man of Letters. In A Life in History, Richa…
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At the time of his death in 2012 at the age of ninety-five, EricHobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translatedinto more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and India ashe was in Britain and the United States. His interests stretched across manycountries and cultures, ranging from poetry to jazz, literature to politics. Hewas a young Communist in the Weimar Republic, a radical student in Cambridge,an army conscript, a Soho 'man about town', a Hampstead intellectual, aCambridge don, an influential journalist, a world traveller, and finally aGrand Old Man of Letters. In A Life in History, Richard Evans tells the storyof Hobsbawm as an historian, but also as a witness to history itself. Eric notonly wrote and spoke about the great issues of the twentieth century, butparticipated in many of them too, from Communist resistance to Hitler torevolution in Cuba, where he acted as an interpreter for Che Guevara. Hiswritings played a pivotal role in the emergence of New Labour. But thisremarkable book is not just an account of the themes and ideas of Eric's life,it is also an intimate portrait of who he truly was - from insecure teenager tolover, family man and husband. Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to his papers,and using interviews of contemporaries and material from seventeen archivesacross three continents, this is the first biography of Hobsbawm. Written withboth empathy and rigour, painstakingly researched and a joy to read, it is anextraordinary achievement from one of the leading historians in the worldtoday: a unique study of a man and his era, and of an intellectual who changedthe way history is written.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4087-0741-8
- EAN: 9781408707418
- Produktnummer: 20640674
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 800 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D5.9 cm 1'188 g
- Gewicht: 1188
Über den Autor
Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University. His previous books include Altered Pasts, The Third Reich in History and Memory, In Defence of History, Telling Lies about Hitler, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich at War and The Third Reich in Power.
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