Interesting Times
A Twentieth-Century Life
$36.79
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2003
Summary
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm’s life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century from Hitler’s rise to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113531 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034911353X |
| Author: | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 200mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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This is the work of a great historian at the height of his powers.
Our greatest living historian - not only Britain’s, but the world’s - SPECTATOR
A remarkable book - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYAutobiography does not come much more sumptuous than this. Eric Hobsbawm writes with elegant, witty precision … The past he remembers lives again in these pages… His interesting times are also extraordinary - OBSERVERThis is the work of a great historian at the height of his powers. - GOOD BOOK GUIDEAbout The Author
Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before retirement he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and after retirement at the New School for Social Research in New York.
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