08. Eric J Hobsbawm

English historian; generally recognized as one of the greatest and most famous historians of the 20th century; now in his late 80s, one of the last survivors of the school of English Marxist historians that has been very influential in historical studies from the early 1950s onwards; one of the original founders, and the first editorial board chairman, of Past and Present, arguably one of the most influential scholarly journals of the Anglo-American world. Best known for his great tetralogy of 19th and 20th century history : The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and Age of Extremes, as well as for a variety of other works, including Nations and Nationalisms since 1783, and his autobiography titled Interesting Times (in which he also undertakes a comprehensive critique of Communism in the 20th century).