UK Historian Eric Hobsbawm Dies At 95

	UK Historian Eric Hobsbawm Dies At 95 Eric Hobsbawm a lifelong socialist and one of Britains most eminent historians has died at the age of 95 his daughter said Monday.Julia Hobsbawm said her father died overnight at a London hospital. He had been suffering from pneumonia.He had been quietly fighting leukemia for a number of years without fuss or fanfare Julia Hobsbawm said. Right up until the end he was keeping up what he did best, he was keeping up with current affairs, there was a stack of newspapers by his bed.Hobsbawm was one of Britains most distinguished historians, his works on the 20th century read by generations of students, despite an allegiance to the Communist Party that he retained long after many supporters left in shame and disgust. Hobsbawms reading of Karl Marx and his experience living in Germany in the 1930s formed his views. He joined the Communist Party in England in 1936 and stayed a member long after Soviet military force crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the liberal reforms of the Prague Spring in 1968, although he publicly opposed both interventions.Hobsbawm is best known for three volumes, spanning the period from 1789 to 1914: The Age of Revolution 1962 The Age of Capital 1975 and The Age of Empire 1987. A later volume, Age of Extremes, took the story forward from 1914 to 1991.His last book, How to Change the World,published in 2011, was not a revolutionary tract but a collection of essays dating back to the 1960s on Marx and Marxism.	From: findceleb Views: 0 0 ratings
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