Eric Hobsbawm

Why Is Eric Hobsbawm Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" , The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions".

Eric Hobsbawm's Published Works

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Published Papers

The invention of tradition (1986) (6523)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990) (3051)
民族与民族主义 = Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 (1992) (1717)
Age of extremes :the short twentieth century 1914-1991 (1994) (1321)
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 (1987) (719)
The Invention of Tradition: Introduction: Inventing Traditions (2012) (604)
The age of revolution, 1789-1848 (1963) (508)
The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 (1995) (462)
Primitive Rebels, Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1965) (393)
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975) (383)
Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations (1964) (374)
The Age of Extremes (1994) (280)
The Age of empire (1987) (275)
The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 (1962) (235)
Peasants and politics (1973) (219)
The Age of Revolution (2013) (219)
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today (1992) (201)
The Invention of Tradition: Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870–1914 (2012) (189)
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day (1968) (173)
The Forward march of Labour halted (1981) (168)
From Social History to the History of Society. (1971) (154)
Labouring Men: Studies in the history of labour (1966) (153)
The Machine Breakers (1952) (143)
The General Crisis of the European Economy in the 17th Century (1954) (137)
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (2002) (136)
Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (1964) (131)
Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (2007) (108)
THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF THE PAST: SOME QUESTIONS (1972) (102)
Nationen und Nationalismus : Mythos und Realitat seit 1780 (1992) (93)
Das Zeitalter der Extreme : Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (1998) (90)
Language, culture, and national identity (1996) (88)
The British Standard of Living 1790-1850 (1957) (86)
Worlds of labour: Further studies in the history of labour (1984) (77)
Labouring men : studies in the history of labour (1965) (77)
The Future of the State (1996) (72)
Industry and Empire: An Economic History of Britain Since 1750. (1971) (65)
Industry and Empire: An Economic History of Britain Since 1750 (1968) (64)
Culture, ideology, and politics : essays for Eric Hobsbawm (1982) (64)
Nations and nationalism since 1780: The apogee of nationalism 1918–1950 (1992) (63)
The Crisis of The 17th Century—II (1954) (62)
The new century (2000) (57)
Workers: Worlds of Labor (1985) (54)
Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (1960) (52)
THE REVIVAL OF NARRATIVE: SOME COMMENTS (1980) (49)
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz (1998) (47)
Revolutionaries; contemporary essays (1973) (45)
On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy (2008) (44)
How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism (2011) (43)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Maps (1992) (41)
The development of the world economy (1979) (41)
The Tramping Artisan (1951) (40)
PEASANT LAND OCCUPATIONS (1974) (40)
Man and Woman in Socialist Iconography (1978) (39)
L'invention de la tradition (2006) (38)
Historical studies today (1972) (37)
The Jazz Scene (1988) (35)
Representing the Nation : A Reader : Histories, Heritage and Museums (1999) (35)
Karl Marx : pre-capitalist economic formations (1964) (34)
The Standard of Living during the Industrial Revolution: A Discussion (1963) (31)
On the Edge of the New Century (2000) (30)
Karl Marx's Contribution To Historiography (1968) (28)
How to change the world : Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 (2011) (26)
Artisan or Labour Aristocrat (1984) (26)
The Nation and Globalization (1998) (25)
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. (1977) (24)
Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back On The French Revolution (1990) (24)
ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS AND SOME SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SINCE 1800 (1952) (23)
Industry and empire : the making of modern English society (1968) (22)
Custom, Wages, And Work-Load In Nineteenth-Century Industry (1960) (22)
THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH (1961) (22)
Labouring Men. Studies in the History of Labour. (1967) (21)
The 'Short Twentieth Century' (1993) (21)
Marx and History (1984) (18)
Labor History and Ideology (1974) (18)
Behind the Times: The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-Century Avant Gardes (1999) (18)
Sozialrebellen : archaische Sozialbewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (1962) (17)
History and System: The Whole World@@@The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991.@@@The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. (1996) (17)
Industrie und Empire : Britische Wirtschaftsgeschichte seit 1750 (1969) (15)
PAST AND PRESENT: ORIGINS AND EARLY YEARS (1983) (15)
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (2014) (14)
Lenin and the "Aristocracy of Labor" (1970) (13)
Das imperiale Zeitalter : 1875-1914 (1989) (12)
Industrie und Empire (1982) (12)
War and Peace in the 20th Century (2003) (11)
Peasants in History: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner (1981) (11)
Revolution in History: Revolution (1986) (11)
Gramsci and Political Theory (2007) (10)
Peasant Society in the Colombian Andes: A Sociological study of Saucío (1964) (10)
Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writing, 1977-1988 (1989) (10)
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. IV: The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (1968) (10)
Wieviel Geschichte braucht die Zukunft (1998) (10)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: The transformation of nationalism, 1870-1918 (1992) (9)
The History of Marxism (1982) (9)
Die Blütezeit des Kapitals : eine Kulturgeschichte der Jahre 1848-1875 (1980) (9)
The Historian between the Quest for the Universal and the Quest for Identity (1994) (9)
The Making of a “Bourgeois Revolution” (2004) (8)
A Life in History (2002) (8)
The Italian Road to Socialism: An Interview (1977) (8)
Guessing About Global Change (1995) (8)
E. P. Thompson (1994) (7)
THE BRITISH COMMUNIST PARTY (1954) (7)
Trade Union Historiography (1964) (7)
Critical Sociology and Social History (2008) (7)
Das Zeitalter der Extreme (2019) (6)
The nation as novelty: from revolution to liberalism (1992) (6)
Nationalism in the late twentieth century (1992) (6)
Peasants In History (1960) (6)
Age of extrems :the short twentieth century (1998) (5)
A hundred years of progress : the record of the Scottish Typographical Association, 1853 to 1952 (1954) (5)
The Early English Trade Unions. Documents from the Home Office Papers in the Public Record Office. (1949) (5)
Mafia: Zentrale Herrschaft und lokale Gegenmacht (1973) (5)
Aspects of international socialism, 1871-1914 : essays (1986) (4)
Trade Union History (1967) (4)
Guerillas in Latin America (1970) (4)
Das Gesicht des 21. Jahrhunderts : ein Gespräch mit Antonio Polito (2002) (4)
Political Violence and Political Murder: Comments on Franklin Ford’s Essay (1982) (4)
Problems of Communist History (1970) (4)
Socialism and the avantgarde in the period of the Second International (1980) (4)
William Thompson, 1775-1833. (1955) (3)
A Cresting Wave? Recent Trends in the Historiography of Slavery, with Special Reference to the British Caribbean (2016) (3)
Kunst und Macht im Europa der Diktatoren 1930 bis 1945 (1996) (3)
The effectiveness and economic development impact of policy-based cash transfer programs : the case of Costa Rica (1988) (3)
The Working Class in British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling. (1984) (3)
First World and Third World after the cold war (1999) (3)
War, Peace and Hegemony at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2008) (3)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Nationalism in the late twentieth century (1992) (3)
The Age of Capital, 1848-75. (1976) (3)
The forward march (2011) (3)
The Italian Road to Socialism: An Interview with Giorgio Napolitano of the Italian Communist Party (1978) (3)
The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe, 1850-1940. (1978) (3)
Addressing the Questions (1993) (3)
Labour's Turning Point, 1880-1900: Extracts from Contemporary Sources (1974) (3)
The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-51. (1979) (2)
Intellectuals and the Labour Movement (2008) (2)
The Age of Capitalism, 1848-1875 (1976) (2)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Introduction (1992) (2)
Forty Years of Popular Front Government (1977) (2)
TOMMY DOWNSHIRE’S BOYS: POPULAR PROTEST, SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION IN MID-ULSTER 1829–1847* (2007) (2)
Attempts at General Union 1818-1834. (1954) (2)
The Harder They Come: 1789 as a Challenge to Marxism (1990) (2)
TWENTIETH–CENTURY BRITISH POLITICS (1957) (2)
Are We Entering a New Era of Anti-Semitism ? (1987) (2)
The Social Evolution of Industrial Britain (1963) (2)
The History of Marxism, Volume One: Marxism in Marx's Day (1983) (2)
Reimagining The Nation State (2018) (2)
Städte und Aufstände (1969) (2)
Das Manifest - heute : 150 Jahre Kapitalismuskritik (1998) (2)
Il Marxismo ai tempi di Marx (1978) (2)
Weber und Marx. Ein Kommentar (1986) (1)
Captain Swing@@@The Handloom Weavers: A Study in the English Cotton Industry during the Industrial Revolution (1969) (1)
The World of Social Bandits (1974) (1)
Auf dem Weg zum "historischen Kompromiss" : ein Gespräch über Entwicklung und Programmatik der KPI (1977) (1)
Amy M. Froide. Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England (2006) (1)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Nationalities of the Habsburg empire c. 1910 (1992) (1)
Gefährliche Zeiten : ein Leben im 20. Jahrhundert (2003) (1)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Popular proto-nationalism (1992) (1)
No . 2008-007 THE SOURCES OF INSECURITY IN THE THIRD WORLD : External or Internal ? (2009) (1)
Pre-political Movements in Modern Politics (1979) (1)
Industry and Empire: An Economic History of Britain Since 1750. (1969) (1)
Workers: Worlds of Labor (1986) (1)
The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885. (1965) (1)
Fabianism and the Fabians, 1884-1914 (1950) (1)
Nations and nationalism since 1780: The government perspective (1992) (1)
Echoes of the Marseillaise (2019) (1)
The apogee of nationalism, 1918-1950 (1992) (1)
Kultur und Geschlecht im europäischen Bürgertum 1870-1914 (1988) (1)
Popular proto-nationalism (2012) (1)
Interview of Eric Hobsbawm (2010) (1)
The London Society of Bookbinders. (1954) (1)
Jagdish Chandra Jha: The Bhumij revolt, 1832–33 (Ganga Narain's hangama or turmoil) . xii, 209 pp., 2 maps. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1967. Rs. 20. (1969) (0)
The government perspective (2012) (0)
Marxist Historiography Today (2007) (0)
DR. MARX AND THE VICTORIAN CRITICS (2018) (0)
Social history. Popular politics before the invention of the modern language and institutions of politics (1993) (0)
The Common people and transition to capitalism. Politics before politics and 'primitive rebellions' [incomplet] (1993) (0)
The victims of Whiggery : being a statement of the persecutions experienced by the Dorchester labourers in 1834 (1875) (0)
The Objectives and programmes of popular politics in this period before the elaboration of the modern vocabulary, the modern aims and the modern methods of political action (1993) (0)
Where the history has made progress (1993) (0)
Farewell to the Classic Labour Movement? (2004) (0)
Jazz@@@Jazz: A History of America's Music (2002) (0)
Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain. Origins of the Civil War (1972) (0)
In Memoriam: E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) (1994) (0)
Processes and forms of action of pre-political politics (1993) (0)
The First War of the 21st Century: A Roundtable (1999) (0)
Change in Medieval Society.Sylvia L. Thrupp (1965) (0)
Razgovor Eric Hobsbawm (2016) (0)
Modern France@@@Modern France: Problems of the Third and Fourth Republics. (1951) (0)
RELIGION IN EASTERN EUROPE (2006) (0)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Frontmatter (1992) (0)
The New Globalization Guru (2006) (0)
The History of Marxism, Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx's Day (1982) (0)
Aspects of International Socialism: Essays by Georges Haupt (1988) (0)
Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives (2011) (0)
The Jews of San Nicandro by John Davis (2011) (0)
Labour's collapse in June was worse than anyone expected: but what can we do about it? (1983) (0)
Outside-in and Inside-out: Norm Diffusion in Pre- and Post-Cold War Periods in East Asia (2016) (0)
Antecedents of the International Labour Organization. (1952) (0)
Book Review: An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548–1900 (1984) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Where have the rebels gone? Interview with Eric Hobsbawm (2010) (0)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Peoples, languages and political divisions in the nineteenth century: the East European linguistic jigsaw (1992) (0)
Marxism and history yesterday and today. An assessment of the materialist conception of history (1993) (0)
The ‘New Unionism’ Reconsidered (2017) (0)
BY WAY OF ANSWER. (1916) (0)
The Problem of postmodernism in history (1993) (0)
HISTORIANS IN THE STREETS (2006) (0)
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) (0)
Fabianism and the Fabian Society 1884-1913 (1950) (0)
Marxism in Marx's day (1982) (0)
Peasants, Politics, and Popular Culture (0)
Review : Second World , Second Sex . Socialist Women ’ s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (2019) (0)
Primitive Rebels@@@The Crowd in the French Revolution (1960) (0)
Hobsbawm versus "Trendy Marxism"@@@The History of Marxism, Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx's Day. (1983) (0)
Back to the Story (1983) (0)
Trade Unions@@@From Tolpuddle to T.U.C. (1949) (0)
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: National conflicts and frontier disputes, 1919-1934 (1992) (0)
Clifford James Geertz (2021) (0)
The lesser Fabians (1962) (0)
Book reviews : Langton, J. and Morris, R.J. editors, 1986: Atlas of industrializing Britain 1780-1914. London: Methuen. xxx + 247 pp. £9.95 paper (1988) (0)
William Mangin (ed.), Peasants in Cities. Readings in the Anthropology of Urbanization. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. xxxix + 207 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Price not stated. (1975) (0)
Untersuchungen uber Berufsprobleme der niederosterreichischen Arbeiterschaft in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. Vol. 4 Part 1 Die Berufstruktur Niederosterreichs.@@@Untersuchungen uber Berufsprobleme der niederosterreichischen Arbeiterschaft in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. Vol. 4. Part 2: Berufstruktur (1954) (0)
History, Culture and Ethnography (2021) (0)
The nation a s novelty: from revolution to liberalism (2012) (0)
The End of Empires (2018) (0)
14 Administrativ e Law: A New Tsar is Born? (1984) (0)
Obituary (1976) (0)
"Partisanship" and the sciences (1982) (0)
Scientist Spies by Paul Broda (2011) (0)
A Foreign Book (1980) (0)
1 Peasants , Politics , and Popular Culture (0)
Three Ages of Jazz (2007) (0)
War, Peace and Hegemony at the Beginning of the 21st Century* (2012) (0)
Soziale Bewegungen und Kämpfe auf dem Lande in England in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (1968) (0)
‘‘North Korean collapse increases in direct proportion to the promotion (2009) (0)
Studies in the Industrial Revolution: Essays presented to T. S. Ashton. (1960) (0)
GRAND NARRATIVES AND BLIND SPOTS (2013) (0)
Crossing the Rubicon (1990) (0)
The Great Fear of 1789; Rural Panic in Revolutionary France. (1974) (0)
Nationalistic Discourses in Serbian Historiography: Kosovo as a Historical Topics since the Modernizing Era (2011) (0)
Ðorñe Tomić HOW TO DEFINE A NATION? NATIONS AND NATIONALISM AS A SUBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (2011) (0)
‘Subject, Text, Nation: Situating Narrative Fiction in Nationalism Studies’ (2010) (0)
El retorno del jazz (1987) (0)
FEATURES 8 Redrawing the Frontline - Southern Africa in (1984) (0)
From Tolpuddle to T.U.C. (1949) (0)
FEATURES 9 Welfare State - Safety Net or Poverty Trap (1985) (0)
Conversations with Eric Hobsbawm (2016) (0)

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Birkbeck, University of London

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