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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 Spiral-Bound | April 23, 1989

Eric Hobsbawm

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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.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0679721754
Item Weight: 0.8 lbs
Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.0 x 8.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
"Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic." —Neal, Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London)

"It is Mr. Hobsbawm's 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 historian's craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Hobsbawm's scholarship." —David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review

"A 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
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.