Eric Hobsbawm Owed His Success to Mass Culture

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Eric Hobsbawm Owed His Success to Mass Culture

More than the “revolutionary historian” promised by the subtitle, the Eric Hobsbawm chronicled in Emile Chabal’s is above all a canny academic entrepreneur. Early in his career, Hobsbawm found a literary agent and converted his lectures for undergraduates into a series of best-selling books. He made valuable contacts with rising-star scholars and publishing houses in continental Europe. He traveled widely: not so mu…