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Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm; Eric J. Hobsbawm
Category: Non-Fiction
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 centur ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: History
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: Politics
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the risi ...Show more
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: History
The author traces the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the dual occurrence of the French and Industrial revolutions. The account highlights the 60 significant years when industrialism established domination over the world it was to hold for a century.
Viva La Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America by Eric Hobsbawm
Category: History
In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was eighty-five years old, the historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claime ...Show more
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