Eric Hobsbawm
Basics
Eric Hobsbawm: Marxist historian. Age of the Sage (199?)
On the Web: Articles
America's Imperial Delusion. Guardian (6/14/03).
After Winning the War: The Empire Expands Wider & Still Wider. Counterpunch (6/11/03).
The Future of War & Peace. Counterpunch (2/27/02).
Excerpt from Nations & Nationalism Since 1780. Nationalism Project
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Eagleton, Terry. "The life of the party," Nation (9/15/03):29-33. Review essay on Interesting Times.
Hobsbawm, Eric. "Farewell to the classic labour movement?" New Left Review 173 (1989).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Gilbert, Felix & Stephen R. Graubard (eds.) Historical Studies Today: Essays by E.J. Hobsbawm & Others (NY: Norton, 1972).
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Labour's Turning-Point, 1880-1900: Extracts from Contemporary Sources [1948] (2nd ed.; Rutherford NJ: Farleigh Dickinson, 1974).
__________. Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th & 20th Centuries [1959] (3rd ed.; Manchester: Manchester U, 1971).
__________. The Jazz Scene [1960] (rev. ed.; NY: Pantheon, 1993).
__________. The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 [1962] (NY: Vintage, 1996). Basic reading for understanding the immediate historical background to the principal events of our times.
__________ (ed.) Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations [Karl Marx] (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1964).
__________. Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour (NY: Basic Books, 1965).
__________ & George Rudé. Captain Swing (NY: Pantheon, 1968).
__________. Industry & Empire: An Economic History of Britain since 1750 [1968] (rev. ed.; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999).
__________. Bandits [1969] (rev. ed.; NY: New Press, 2000).
__________. La Convención: un caso de neofeudalismo (Lima: Instituto de Investigaciones Econoómico-Sociales, 1970?).
__________. Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays (NY: Pantheon, 1973).
__________. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 [1975] (NY: Vintage, 1996). Basic reading for understanding the immediate historical background to our times.
__________. The Crisis & the Outlook (London: Birkbeck College Socialist Society, 1975).
__________. The Italian Road to Socialism: An Interview [with Giorgio Napolitano of the Italian Communist Party] (Westport CT: Lawrence Hill, 1977).
__________ (ed.) Peasants in History: Essays in Honbour of Daniel Thorner (Calcutta: Oxford, 1980).
__________ (ed.) The History of Marxism (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1982).
__________ (ed.) Marxism in Marx's Day (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1982).
__________ & Terence Ranger (eds.) The Invention of Tradition (NY: Cambridge, 1983).
__________. Workers: Worlds of Labor (NY: Pantheon, 1984).
__________. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (NY: Pantheon, 1987). Basic reading for understanding the immediate historical background to our times.
__________. Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writing, 1977-1988 (NY: Verso, 1989).
__________. Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (NY: Verso, 1990).
__________. Nations & Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality [1990] (2nd ed.; NY: Cambridge, 1992).
__________. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (NY: Pantheon, 1994)
Basic reading for understanding the immediate historical background to our times.
__________. On History (NY: New Press, 1997).
__________ (ed.) The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition [Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels] (NY: Verso, 1998).
__________. Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion & Jazz (NY: New Press, 1998).
__________. Behind the Times: The Decline & Fall of the 20th-C. Avant-Gardes (NY: Thames & Hudson, 1999).
__________. On the Edge of the New Century: Conversation with Antonio Polito (NY: New Press, 2000).
__________. Interesting Times: A 20th-C. Life (London: Allen Lane, 2002).
Jacques, Martin & Francis Mulhern (eds.) The Forward March of Labour Halted? (London: NLB, 1981).
Samuel, Raphael & Gareth Stedman Jones (eds.) Culture, Ideology, Politics: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm (London: Routledge, 1982).
Thane, Pat; Geoffrey Crossick & Roderick Floud (eds.) The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm (NY: Cambridge, 1984).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Hobsbawm, Eric J. & Marc Weitzmann (eds.) 1968: Magnum Throughout the World (Paris: Magnum, 1998).