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Eric Hobsbawm talks to Simon Schama
The Memory of an Empire
Hay Festival 2007,
‘A world almost entirely composed of empires 100 years ago, has gone for good and is beyond reconstruction. It should not be remembered with superior nostalgia, nor with mythologies of national liberation.’
