His bestknown works include his trilogy about what he called the long 19th century the age of. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Taking an almost godlike view on the immense historical events that constituted this great historians life, eric hobsbawm takes us on the long journey through his encounter with the twentieth century. I started at the end, chronologically speaking with this addendum to eric hobsbawm s much admired age of sequence. A history of the world, 19141991, pantheon books, 1994. Eric hobsbawm s dangerous reputation he was branded a stalinist, and was spied on for decades by mi5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade. The book by its nature is more than just historical analysis, with personal observation and reflection informing its analysis.
Born in alexandria in 1917, eric hobsbawm was educated in vienna, berlin, london and cambridge. The book by its nature is more than just historical analysis, with personal. O privire panoramica partea io epoca a catastrofei 33 cap. Eric hobsbawm, secolul extremelor, lider, bucuresti, 1999. Am trit cea mai mare parte a vieii n secolul xx, trebuie s recunosc, fr suferine personale. His quartet of books beginning with the age of revolution and ending with the age of extremes constitute the best starting point i know for anyone who wishes to. In ways both deliberate and not, fractured times, a posthumously published collection of essays on culture and society in the 20th century by the british historian eric hobsbawm. Eric hobsbawm secolul extremelor by marian bodea issuu. In many ways the memoirs of a great observer can prove to be more interesting than a great actor or mover of events. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. If its your first time on the site, or youre looking for. Rowley, istoria continentului european, bucuresti, chisinau, cartier, 2001.
Yet this volume also acts as a denouement, because it completes after the age of revolution 17891848 and the age of capital 18481875 hobsbawm s internal trilogy covering the long nineteenth century. Ian kershaw said that hobsbawms take on the twentieth century, his 1994 book, the age of extremes, consisted of masterly analysis. Activity books art and craft books babies and toddlers books childrens fiction books christmas books colouring books tweet cooking and gardening books encyclopedias. When eric was two, around the time of the egyptian revolution of 1919, his parents, a british father and austrian mother, both jewish, moved away from alexandria to red vienna. The age of empire 18751914 is the third of eric hobsbawm s quartet of books covering the tumultuous rise of the modern industrialised world. Eric lived there until he went to berlin in 1931 at the age of fourteen.
A fellow of the british academy and the american academy of arts and sciences, he taught for most of his career at birkbeck college, university of london, where he was emeritus professor of economic and social history. Fractured times, by eric hobsbawm the new york times. Still, undoubtedly the most spellbinding parts of the book deal with hobsbawm s early life. Eric hobsbawm londranew york, 19931994 o privire panoramica opinia a dousprezece persoane despre secolul xx isaiah berlin filozof, anglia. Had eric hobsbawm died 25 years ago, the obituaries would have described him as britains most distinguished marxist historian and would have left it more or less there.