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Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the �free intellectual” and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy.
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Fractured Times, Eric Hobsbawm
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- Released
- 2013
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Fractured Times
- Subtitle
- Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN10
- 1408704285
- ISBN13
- 9781408704288
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- Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the �free intellectual” and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy.