What to Read After The Invention of tradition
Readers who loved The Invention of tradition by Eric Hobsbawm keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Invention of tradition is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Invention of tradition
Imagined communities
The making of the English working class
Nation and Nationalism
Nations and nationalism since 1780
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Metahistory
How societies remember
The civilizing process
On Collective Memory (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Memory, History, Forgetting
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
Europe and the people without history
The Historian's Craft
Liberalism
The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history
Popular culture in early modern Europe
The age of empire, 1875-1914
Industry and empire
The age of extremes
On history
New perspectives on historical writing
Customs in common
The Age of Revolution
The Age of Capital