Series | Studi di storia
Volume 14 | Monograph | Eric J. Hobsbawm between British Marxism and Italian Communism
Eric J. Hobsbawm between British Marxism and Italian Communism
open access | peer reviewed- Anna Di Qual - Indipendent Scholar - email
Abstract
By developing the biographical genre though a “translocal micro-history” approach, the research aims to study the figure of Eric J. Hobsbawm focusing on his elective affinity with Italy. It examines the ways in which the encounter of the English historian with this country took place and was renewed from the fifties until the new Millennium. First, it analyzes the relationships networks which Hobsbawm created in Italy or with Italians worldwide; secondly, it considers the results that these interactions provoked at the level of scientific production and political reflection, trying to capture at the same time the transformations that his political identity underwent in contact with the Italian Communist Party. Moreover it try to explore the features that his reputation reached in Italy, discussing the influences his production exerted on Italian historiographical context and on Italian public opinion.
Keywords Communism • Eric Hobsbawm • Marxism • Italy • Biography
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-400-4 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-400-4 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-401-1 | Published March 27, 2020 | Accepted Oct. 15, 2019 | Submitted Aug. 1, 2019 | Language it
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