ABSTRACT
This is not the place to assess the writings of Eric Hobsbawm: one can simply note the sheer volume and range of them and the number of countries in which he has published. For Eric Hobsbawm must be known internationally to a greater extent than almost any other post-war British intellectual. If, in Britain, he is probably best known as an historian of industrial capitalism and the working class, in southern Italy or Peru he is read as the historian of ‘primitive rebels’, while, to some others, he is not Eric Hobsbawm at all, but remembered as Francis Newton, jazz critic. And as can be seen from the following bibliography, there are many other subjects with which he is associated.
