The age of extremes, which covers most of 20th century american and european international politics, is a good read for any one interested in knowing at an intermediate level why things happened the way they did in eurous politics. A fellow of the british academy and the american academy of arts and sciences, eric hobsbawm was the author of more than twenty books of history, including the age of revolution and the age of extremes. He is the author of the age of revolution, the age of capital, the age of empire, and the age of extremes, and the new press has published his books on history, uncommon people, industry and empire, bandits, on the edge of the new century, revolutionaries, his memoir interesting times, on empire, and fractured times. The age of extremes by eric hobsbawm free pdf ebooks. This dual revolution created the modern world as we know it. Although eric hobsbawms study of the short twentieth century follows his threevolume study of the long nineteenth century, the present enterprise is. Later the series became a tetralogy with the publication of age of extremes. However, protectionism was not the main economic response to the depression, instead the biggest economic response was the increasing concentration of. Eric hobsbawm ranks among the most prolific and most influential british historians of the entire postwar era. In this chapter hobsbawm argues that the postwar era came with great economic performance for several states in europe, asia, latin america and africa. Fractured times, by eric hobsbawm the new york times.
Eric hobsbawm 19172012 perspectives on history aha. Books by eric hobsbawm author of the age of extremes. Part of eric hobsbawms epic fourvolume history of the modern world, along with the age of capitalism, the age of empire, and the age of extremes. Dividing the century into the age of catastrophe, 19141950, the golden age, 19501973, and the landslide, 19731991, hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his. In it, hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state socialism, capitalism, and nationalism. How to change the world online university of the left.
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