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Max Hartwell criticized this historian for using bread and meat markets to take a pessimistic view in the standard of living debate. Ranajit Guha’s Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency attacked this historian for characterizing a certain practice as “pre-political” rather than representing the subaltern register. Terrence Ranger co-edited a collection with this historian that identified the “Highland myth” (15[1])as one of the title (15[1])phenomena linked to nationalist (15[1])movements. This theorist of (*) “invented tradition” did not leave the Communist Party Historians Group (10[1])with his colleagues Christopher Hill and E.P. Thompson. This historian included a fourth book on “Extremes” (10[1])in his revision of a trilogy whose original subject discussed European history from 1789 to 1914. For 10 points, name this historian who coined the term “long nineteenth century.” ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Eric Hobsbawm [or Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm] (Ranajit Guha criticized Hobsbawm’s theory of “social banditry.”)
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