[The Clockwork Rat]

I have just been reading his Age of Revolution. It appears to have great descriptive and analytical strength, which in my eternal cynicism makes me wonder what he has gotten wrong.

Anything?

[peterm1988]

I loved it when I read it, but to be fair I don't know enough about the period to poke holes...

[MB.]

He was a marxist so there is that. I loved the age of revolution, his periodization is great and research is broad enough to have plenty of popular appeal. I'm sure you could critique him for over simplification or whatever but frankly his books are masterworks and everyone should read all of them.

[houndred]

Hobsbawn came from a time when Marxist historians( Like Christopher Hill, EP Thompson and George Rude) wrote well researched and argued books . I am not in anyway a Marxist but I love some of their work.

Luckily postmodernists have not made leeway into British History departments