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" Eric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931. Living with an uncle in Berlin, he experienced the full force of world economic depression, and in the charged reaction to it in Germany was forced to choose between Nazism and Communism, which was no choice at all. Hobsbawm's lifelong allegiance to Communism inspired his pioneering work in social…
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3 editions- Hardcover · English · 2019Oxford University Press · 800 pages · 9780190459642
- Other · English · 2020Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 800 pages · 9780349141435
- Other · English · 2019Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 432 pages · 9781408707418
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