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Eric Hobsbawm Quotes

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Eric Hobsbawm

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Historian Quotes
Category:
British Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 8, 1917
Nationality:
British
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