Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European

intellectuals of the twentieth century. He published hundreds of

articles on modern history and culture, and his books became canonical

works and bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. His crystal-clear

writing, vast erudition, and ability to make his Marxist analysis

digestible to a wide audience brought him worldwide renown. Yet Hobsbawm

was no academic hermit. Through his globetrotting journalism, he was

embedded in an extraordinary web of politicians, activists, and fellow

intellectuals across Europe, South Asia, and the Americas, including

Manmohan Singh, Che Guevara, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Fernand Braudel,

E. P. Thompson, Arno Mayer, and Salvador Allende. 

In The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian (Harvard University Press, 2026), Emile Chabal