Goodby Eric Hobsbawm and thanks a lot:

From wikipedia:

Hobsbawm wrote extensively on many subjects as one of Britain's most prominent historians. As a Marxist historiographer he has focused on analysis of the "dual revolution" (the political French revolution and the industrial British revolution). He saw their effect as a driving force behind the predominant trend towards liberal capitalism today. Another recurring theme in his work has been social banditry, a phenomenon that Hobsbawm tried to place within the confines of relevant societal and historical context, thus countering the traditional view of it being a spontaneous and unpredictable form of primitive rebellion.^{[1][8][9][10][11][12][13]} He also coined the term "long nineteenth century", which begins with theFrench Revolution in 1789 and ended with the start of World War I in 1914.

Outside of his academic historical writing, Hobsbawm wrote a regular column (under the pseudonym Francis Newton', taken from the name of Billie Holiday's communist trumpet player, Frankie Newton) for the New Statesman as a jazz critic, and time to time over popular music such as with his "Beatles and before" article.^[14] He published numerous essays in various intellectual journals, dealing with subjects such as barbarity in the modern age, the troubles of labour movements, and the conflict between anarchism and communism. Among his final publications were Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (2007), On Empire (2008), and the collection of essays How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840–2011 (2011).

and the whole:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm