Unlike the vast majority of history scholars, Eric Hobsbawm had a huge, global audience, a literary agent (the same as John Le Carré), a devoted personal editor, publishing houses that paid him advances with five zeros, and many newspapers and television programs at his disposal. He wrote “interesting books” as the communist movement – the community he had chosen for himself – split and then disappeared.
We announce the publication of a monograph on him, written by Anna Di Qual – a chapter has been anticipated in “Storiografia”, 23, in the dossier Marxismo italiano – recalling also the magnum opus on Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans, here reviewed by Massimo Mastrogregori for the “Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken”, 100 (2020).
