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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
Eric Hobsbawm
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Description for Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
Paperback. *The controversial autobiography of one of the most celebrated historians of our time Num Pages: 464 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349113531
SKU
V9780349113531
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About 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.
Reviews for Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
Our greatest living historian - not only Britain's, but the world's
SPECTATOR
A remarkable book
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Autobiography 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
OBSERVER ... Read more
SPECTATOR
A remarkable book
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Autobiography 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
OBSERVER ... Read more