biography
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Hobsbawm, Eric (John Ernest)
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| lived:
| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Alexandria, N Egypt. The son of Jewish parents - an English-born father and Viennese mother - his early years were spent in Vienna and Berlin before moving to London (1933). He studied at Cambridge and became a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London (1947), and later professor of Economic and Social History there (1970–82, emeritus 1982). His many works include Labour's Turning Point (1948), The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of Capital (1975), Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 (1990), and Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century (1994). |
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