The New Nationalists

□ ric Hobsbawm is emeritus professor of h isto ry at B irk b eck C ollege, University of London. He was born in Alexandria in 1917, and emigrated to Britain with his family in his youth. He is the author of such celebrated works of history as Labouring Men, The Age of Empire and Industry and Empire. He was also a key f igure in debates within the British Left in the 1980s. His latest book, Nations and N ationalism , is p u b lish ed by Cambridge University Press.