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Book Cover for: The Age of Capital: The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Capital: The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other
volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.

Although it pulses with great events--failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression--The Age of Capital is most outstanding for its analyis of the trends that created the new order. With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm indentifies this epoch's winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science, and religion.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Nov 26th, 1996
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.36in - 0.82in - 0.61lb
  • EAN: 9780679772545
  • Categories: Economic HistoryModern - 19th CenturySocial Classes & Economic Disparity

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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 Revolution, The Age of Empire, The Age of Extremes, and The Jazz Scene. He died in 2012.

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Praise for this book

"Eric Hobsbawm is one of the few genuinely great historians of our century." --The New Republic

"Brilliant. . . . [This period] must be understood from a global perspective. Hobsbawm is at his best when he dissects the bourgeois culture of 'repectability.'" --The New York Times Book Review

"One of the great achievements of historical writing in recent decades." --The New York Review of Books