...Teresa Meade © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 Remembrance Eric Hobsbawm, 1917 – 2012 Teresa Meade On October 1, 2012, one of the most important historians of our time died. Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, known as E. J., was one of the founders...

...E. J. Hobsbawm Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 Addressing the Questions E. J. Hobsbawm Rather than comment on any of the papers, let me, as briefly as I can, try to answer your questions. The peculiarity...

...Eric Hobsbawm E. P. Thompson“ Eric Hobsbawm E. P. Thompson, historian, socialist, poet, campaigner, orator, writer-in his day-of the finest polemical prose of this century, would probably wish to be remembered as the first of these. And indeed...

... on the subject are frequently about something else as is E.H. Carr's biography of Bakunin or Stekloff's history of the First International. Eric J. Hobsbawm has done more than most to place a particular vision of the Spanish anarchists before the general readership in English. In a recent...

... historians.  — Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914 – 1991 The idea of contemporary “new imperialisms” in our world — however broadly (the West) or narrowly (the United States) defined — presents an inherent challenge to teachers because of their newness...

... been colo- nized by Europe in the nineteenth century. My choice of Others largely centered on the Middle East and South Asia, more out of personal interest than anything else. Eric Hobsbawm's Nations and Nationalism Since 2789 served as a kind of textbook. It provided a narrative history...

... of the anglophone Left in the later twentieth century, from the Historians Group of Eric Hobsbawm, E. P. Thompson, and Christopher Hill to the likes of Perry Anderson and Paul Gilroy. Hall shared with many of these scholars a blind spot on Ireland. Anderson has never written a single piece on Ireland, despite...

... of cultural artifacts and practices and required the exploration of the meanings groups within cultures assigned to them. Essays in the Hobsbawm and Ranger collection were very useful in initiating discussion about the multiple ways of defining who belongs to a culture, both from the point...

... a group lacking such a traditi~n In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have focused their attention upon issues of statebuilding, nation-building, and nationalism. Influential works by Eric Hobsbawm and Ernest Gellner emphasize ”the element of artefact, invention and social...

... their enemies successfully is more likely to act together effectively than a group lacking such a traditi~n In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have focused their attention upon issues of statebuilding, nation-building, and nationalism. Influential works by Eric Hobsbawm...

...) and, most notably, Hobsbawm (1950). This thesis claims that the Spanish anarchists, rather like the millenarian mystics of the Mid- dle Ages, were ideological, naive fanatics, whose movement was politically irrational because it had messianic or chilliastic overtones, and that it was a kind...

... to hear Perry Anderson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson discuss ”The Agenda for Radical History.” Joining them as commen- tators were Charles Maier, J. R. Ravetz, and Joan Scott. The event was extraordinary in many ways, not least for the interest it generated at a time...

... The Contribution of Hobsbawm Dam, Marty Doing Time: The Crime of Prisons 7:14 in America Davin, Eric Leif with Picket Line and Ballot Box: The 22: 43-63 Lynd, Staughton The Forgotten Legacy of the Local Labor Party Movement 1932-1936...

... with wonderful calligraphic flourishes on bourgeois style that are rem- iniscent of that arch-connoisseur Eric Hobsbawm’s eye for arcane detail-the zoo-visiting, the opera-going, the bathetic bombast of literary paeans to prosaic modern inventions. Both he and Eley agree, however, that this process...

.... In October 1985, the New School for Social Research in New York City drew together radical historians and others to discuss the opportunities and responsibilities facing left historians today. ”Agen- das for Radical History” presents the comments of five speakers from that session. Eric Hobsbawm...

...Javier Villa-Flores MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Religion, Politics, and Salvation: Latin American Millenarian Movements Javier Villa-Flores In 1959 Eric Hobsbawm famously characterized millenarian movements as “archaic...

... Smith: Chap. 4 Asian Societies and Empires Before European Hegemony SDtember 22 Reilly: Braudel, “The Indian Mogul The World Economy in the “Age Of Economy” (57-68); and Ho “The Ernpire, ” 2 875-2 92 4 Chinese Economy” (68-76) Empire Reader: Hobsbawm...

... on the Communist Party of South Africa, 1921-34 Robin D.G. Kelley In an essay entitled ”Religion and the Rise of Socialism,” Eric Hobsbawm made a very critical observation that the emergence of working-class socialist movements in nineteenth-century Europe...