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.
Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution...
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives...
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array o...
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideo...
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...
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...
"Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction and glossary provide into the origin and development of some key Gramscian concepts." --Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University
The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio...
with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM
"Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows Engl...
Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revolution and European empires, to his magisterial 1995 study of the "short twentieth century," "Age of Extremes," Hobsbawm has become known as one of the finest practitioners of his craft. "On History" brings together his brilliant and challenging reflections on the uses, and abuses, of history. Ranging from considerations of "history from below" and the "progress" of history to recent debate on the relevance of studying history and the...
Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revoluti...
Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm s brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain s rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory...
Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm s brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original ...
First published in 1969, this now-classic book inspired a whole new field of historical study and brought its author popular acclaim. Bandits transcend the label of criminals; they are robbers and outlaws elevated to the status of avengers and champions of social justice. Some, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy, and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world, the stuff of story and myth. Others, like Balkan "haiduks," Indian "dacoits," and Brazilian "congaceiros," are known only to their own countrymen. In his celebrated study of these fascinating figures, Eric Hobsbawm, "one of the few...
First published in 1969, this now-classic book inspired a whole new field of historical study and brought its author popular acclaim. Bandits transcen...
"On the Edge of the New Century" is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm s "The Age of Extremes," a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller, now in paperback. Hobsbawm s latest book continues his magisterial ("The New York Times Book Review") analysis of the twentieth century, and asks crucial questions about our inheritance from a century of conflict and its meaning for our future.
Looking back over the last decade, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between the state of war and the state of peace...
"On the Edge of the New Century" is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm s "The Age of Extremes," a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that...
One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the "New Republic," Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark booksincluding "The Age of Capital," "The Age of Revolution," "Bandits," and "The Age of Extremes" that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum. Now back in print after thirty years, "Revolutionaries" is vintage Hobsbawm, written masterfully amid one of the century s most intense periods of political and social upheaval, putting those events in historical context. Few observers...
One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the "New Republic," Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark booksincludin...
