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15. The Sixties
1. For my contemporary judgement of the May events, see ’May 1968’, written later taht year in E.J. Hobsbawm, Revolutionaries (London, 1999, and earlier editions), chapter 24.
2. MAGNUM PHOTOS: 1968 Magnum Throughout the World, texts by Eric Hobsbawm and Marc Weitzmann (Paris, 1998).
3. I did not consciously note this at the time, but the point is well taken by Yves Pagès, who has edited the complete record of the graffiti in the Sorbonne, collected and preserved by five university employees at the time. See No Copyright. Sorbonne 1968: Graffiti (Editions verticales, 1998), p. 11.
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