Eric Hobsbawm's account of the "long 19th century," as told in his The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Extremes, is something that readers

Eric Hobsbawm's account of the "long 19th century," as told in his The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Extremes, is something that readers who are interested in Zinn may also be interested in. Hobsbawm appears to have a significantly better reputation among professional historians than Zinn does. Hobsbawm still frequently appears on university reading lists for history majors. I remember the trilogy as engaging and easy to read for an outsider to the field. He is less polemical than Zinn, even if his political sympathies are similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm Favorable mentions of Hobsbawm from AskHistorians: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5bcvbe/i_am_reading_eric_hobsbawms_the_age_of_revolution/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5bcvbe/i_am_... https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/efznsq/is_eric_hobsbawns_long_19th_century_trilogy_still/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/efznsq/is_er...