Eric Hobsbawm was a distinguished historian who focused on social and economic history. His work was characterized by profound insights into pivotal eras and societal transformations. With an unwavering lens on history, he analyzed the complex processes that shaped the modern world. His literary legacy lies in his meticulous examination of the past and its impact on the present.
The book explores the 20th century by dividing it into three distinct periods: the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Landslide. Hobsbawm utilizes extensive data to provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of these eras, highlighting their unique characteristics and impacts on modern history. This work stands alongside his renowned classics, offering readers a rich and vibrant understanding of the century's transformative events and trends.
Contains pages 53 to 76 of Chapter 3 from THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789-1848
The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, The Age of Empire covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One and shaped modern society.
A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism". The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitve private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgeoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.
First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of �base� and �superstructure�, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present � historical consciousness � to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.
Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This "Dual Revolution" created the modern world as we know it. The book traces the transformation in European life during this period.
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An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain's foremost political historians.
Hobsbawm's classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.
