Book : The Age Of Empire 1875-1914 - Hobsbawm, Eric

-Titulo Original : The Age Of Empire 1875-1914

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Vintage

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Review Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic. -Neal, Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London)It is Mr. Hobsbawms achievement both to have captured the exuberance of an age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end. . . . He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of the twentieth century. -Kennedy, The Economist (London)A virtuoso performance. . . . Few, if any, present practitioners of the historians craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Hobsbawms scholarship. -David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book ReviewA splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose. . . . The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today. -James Joll, The New York Review of Books Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century. From Publishers Weekly In this sequel to The Age of Capital , the author probes the contradictions of a largely tranquil age that stood on the brink of global slaughter. Hobsbawms delvings possess a breadth and depth that few historians have equaled, and this wide-ranging chronicle is essential to our understanding of a modern world divided into hostile camps, praised PW. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Publisher A virtuoso performance...Few, if any, present practitioners of the historians craft can equal the astonishing range and dazzling craft of Mr. Hobsbawms scholarship. --The New York Times Book ReviewA splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose...The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today.--The New York Review of Books From the Inside Flap Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. From the Back Cover Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. About the Author Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He was Emeritus Professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, and Emeritus Universtiy Professor of politics and socity at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of more than fourteen books, including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Extremes, and The Jazz Scene. He died in 2012.