Eric Hobsbawm is a British historian and author, earlier the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain.

He has written (among other things) the following books:

  • Labour's Turning Point
  • Primitive Rebels
  • The Age of Revolution
  • Labouring Men
  • Industry and Empire
  • Bandits
  • Captain Swing (with George Rude)
  • Revolutionaries
  • The Age of Capital
  • Workers
  • The Age of Empire
  • Nations and Nationalism
  • The Jazz Scene
  • Age of Extremes
  • Interesting Times