Annotation Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illuminati…
[The author is an] historian ... [He] takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India, and the Far East. With [this book], we see the history of the twentieth century t…
Hobsbawm is celebrated for his histories of the 19th and 20th centuries, and known for his staunch Marxism. Here he reminisces about his stellar teaching career and describes his extensive travels where he was famous as a revisionist critic of Stalin, and to Cuba, where he trans…
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our p…
"Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes, 1914-1991, said, "I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our po…
El siglo xx ha sido juzgado y condenado: siglo del terror totalitario, de las ideologías utópicas y criminales, de las ilusiones vacías, de los genocidios, de las falsas vanguardias, de la abstracción como sustituto ubicuo del realismo democrático. No deseo abogar por un acusado…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…