Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

Eric J. Hobsbawm

ISBN 10: 034911353X / ISBN 13: 9780349113531

Published by Abacus, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034911353X
• ISBN 13: 9780349113531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for eighty-five years, and has been constantly committed to understanding the 'interesting times' (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jew's account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently, and how it became the world we now live in.

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was 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. Previous books include AGE OF EXTREMES, THE AGE OF REVOLUTION and THE AGE OF EMPIRE. He died 1st October 2012