4. Quoted in H. Stuart Hughes, Sophisticated Rebels (Cambridge, MA and London, 1988), p. 6.
5. Alain Touraine, Le Mouvement de Mai ou le Communisme Utopique (Paris, 1968).
6. Eric J. Hobsbawm, Les Primitifs de la Révolte dans l’Europe Moderne (Paris, 1966).
7. This article is cahpter 22 in my Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays (London, 1973, and various editions since).
8. Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream (London, 2000), pp.n 118, 203–4, 208.
9. Ibid., p. 203.
10. Ibid., p. 196.
11. Carlo Feltrinelli, Senior Service (Milan, 1999), p. 314.
12. Rowbotham, op. cit., p. 196.
13. New Left Review, 1977.
16. A Watcher in Politics
1. Martin Jacques and Francis Mulhern (eds), The Forward March of Labour Halted? (London, 1981); Eric Hobsbawm, Politics for a Rational Left (London, 1989).
2. ’Labour’s Lost Millions’, written after the 1983 British General Election, in Hobsbawm, Politics for a Rationam Left, p. 63.
3. Ibid., p. 65.
4. ’Out of the Wilderness’ (October 1987), Politics for a Rational Left ., p. 207.
5. Marxism Today, April 1985, pp. 21–36 and cover.
6. Geoff Mulgan in Marxism Today, November-December 1998 (Special Issue), pp. 15–16.
7. Leader in Marxism Today, Sptember 1991, p. 3.
8. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes (UK paperback edition), pp. 481, 484.
9. ’After the Fall’ in R. Blackburn (ed.), After the Fall, The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (London, 1991), pp. 122–3.
17. Among the Historians
1. For the substance of the following paragraphs, see also Eric Hobsbawm, ’75 Years of the Economic History Society: Some Reflections’ in that Pat Hudson (ed.), Liying Economic and Social History: Essays to MArk the 75th Anniversary of the Economic History Society (Glagow, 2001), pp. 136–40.
2. Information from Professor Zvi Razi, Postan’s biographer, to whom, as well as to the late Isaiah Berlin and Chimen abramsky, I also owe the data about his early life.
3. IX Congres International des Sciences Historiques: Paris 28 Aout-3 Septembre 1950, vol. II, ACTES (Paris, 1951), p. v,
4. Professor Van Dillen of Amsterdam, in Ibid., p. 142.
5. Jacques Le Goff in Past & Present 100, August 1983, p. 15.
6. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Historisches Denken am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts: 1945–2000 (Göttingen, 2001), pp. 29, 30.
7. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Winter 1971), ’HIstorical Studies Today’. The French contributors, all linked to the Braudel empire, were Jacques Le Goff, Francois Furet and Pierre Goubert, the British — two of them linked to Past & Present — werer Lawrence Stone, Moses Finley and myself, the US ones mainly had links with Princeton and included Robert Darnton and the only specialist on a non-western region, Benjamin Schwarz of Harvard.
8. Ibid., p. 24.
9. For Braudel his obituary in Annales, 1986 n. I; for my own inaugural lecture: Eric Hobsbawm, On History (London, 1997), p. 64.
10. In Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York, 1973).
11. Lawrence Stone, ’The Revival of Narrative’, Past & Present 85, November 1979, pp. 9, 21.
12. Carlo Ginzburg, Il formaggio ed I verni [The cheese and the worms] (Turin, 1976). Curiously enough, though it was reviewed (by me) in the TLS ten years earlier, the more interesting, in my opinion, study of a case of beneficent witches, I Benandanti, had not then attracted attention.
13. See chapter 21 of my On History (London, 1997), originally published as ’The Historian Between the Quest for the Universal and the Quest for Identity’.
14. Pierre Bourdieu, Choses Dites (Paris, 1987), p. 38.
18. In the Global Village
1. Noel Annan, Our Age (London, 1990), p. 267 n.
2. The Estado, the local Times, wrote of a ’a packed auditorium…, ending with enthusiastic and prolonged applause’, Estado de Sao Paulo, 28 May 1975.
3. Julio Caro Baroja, quoted in E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes (London, 1995), p. I.
19. Marseillaise
1. See the biography of this remarkable figure by Annie Kriegel and S. Courtois, Engen Fried; Le Grand Secret du PCF (Paris, 1997). The relative roles of Moscow and Paris in the genesis of the Popular Front have been much discussed, but it now seems clear that its real innovation, the readiness by communists to extend the so-called ’United Front’ from other socialits to frankly non-socialist Liberals, and eventually to all antifascists, however opposed to communism, originated in France.
2. Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman, Les Intellocrates: Expédition en Haute Intelligentsia (Paris, 1981), p. 330.
3. On the French Revolution, see my Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (Rutgers, 1990) and ’Histoire et Illusion’ in Le Débat 89, march-April 1996, pp. 128–38.
20. From Franco to Berlusconi
1. Primitive reberls: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movemment in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Manchester University Press, 1959).
2. E. J. Hobsbawm, Revolutionaries: Comtemporary Essays (London, 1973), ’Reflections on Anarchism’, p. 84.
3. Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth: an Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War (Cambridge, 1943), Preface, For obvious reasons the first edition, published during the Second World War, attracted little notice.
4. The results are in chapter 5 of Primitive Rebels and chapter 8 of Bandits (1968).
5. These form the basis for the present account of my first visit.
6. ’Franco in Rettrat’, New Statesman and Nation, 14 April 1951, p. 415. This article, which I wrote on my return, was described as ’some extracts from the notebook of an Englishman in Barcelona’.
7. E. J. Hobsbawm, Primitive rebels (1959 edn), Preface, p. v.
8. For a biography of this lifelong militant (1900–1973), ’always one of the most esteemed leaders of the Communist Federazione of Palermo’, see the article ’Sala, Michele’ in Franco Andreucci and Tommaso Detti (eds), Il movimento operaio italiano; dizionario biografico, vol. 4 (Rome, 1978).
9. ’The vast bulk of scholarly and sensible literature about Mafia appeared between 1890 and 1910, and the comparative dearth of modern analyses is much to be deplored’, Primitive Rebels, p. 31, fn 3.
10. Giorgio Napolitano and Eric Hobsbawm, Intervista sul PCI (Bari, 1975).
21. Third World
1. E. J. Hobsbawm, ’The Revolutionary Situation in Colombia’, The World Today (Royal Institute of International Affairs), June 1963, p. 248.
2. Andres Villaveces, ’A comparative Statistical Note on Homicide rates in Colombia’ in Charles Bergquist, Ricardo Penaranda and Gonzalo Sanchez G. ’eds), Violence in Colombia 1990–2000: Waging War and Negotiating Peace (Wilmington, Delaware, 2001), pp. 275–80.
3. Monsignor G. Guzman, Orlando Fals Borda and E. Umana Luna, La Violencia en Colombia 2 vols (Bogota, 1962, 1964).