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.
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"The book...is deliberately addressed to the non-expert reader. If historians wish to justify the resources society devotes to their subject, modest though these are, they should not write exclusively for other historians." - Eric Hobsbawm, "The age of Capital", 1975
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9 June 1917. Leading Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His best-known works include his trilogy about long 19th century: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914. https://t.co/2dQELws6AQ
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Also Eric Hobsbawm's best-known works: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875; The Age of Empire: 1875–1914)
"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