Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012)

Eric Hobsbawm

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" and the "short 20th century", and an edited volume that introduced the…