The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

by Eric Hobsbawm

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679721758
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/23/1989
Series:	History of the Modern World
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.93(h) x 0.99(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

Magnificent—The GUARDIAN

A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable—Sunday TIMES

A superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and political—TLS

Hobsbawm is a master historian—INDEPENDENT

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