Eric J. Hobsbawm (Alexandria, 1917), Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge, has taught since 1959 at Birkbeck College at London University. Of his books published in Italian by Laterza we mention: Lavoro, cultura e mentalità nella società industriale (1990), Le rivoluzioni borghesi (1991²), L'età degli imperi. 1875-1914 (1992³), Gramsci in Europa e in America (1995).