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Eric Hobsbawm — Portrait after a picture by Government of India (GODL-India), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Eric Hobsbawm

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer

1917–2012

3 quotes, most often on History.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.
“Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today” (February 1992). Anthropology Today.
- History
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Mapping the Nation (Mappings Series) (13 November 2012), p. 263.
- Race
What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
“Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today” (February 1992). Anthropology Today.
- History

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