Age of Empire: 1875-1914
by Eric Hobsbawm

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ISBN-10:   0679721754
ISBN-13:   9780679721758
Publisher:   Random House [MD]; Knopf; Vintage
Series:   Vintage Ser.
Category:   Young Adults
Pub. Date:   April 1989
Pages:   448
Format:   Paperback


Awards
1989  Man Booker Prize for Fiction  Nominee/Honoree 
1989  Toronto Book Awards  Winner! 
2001  Toronto Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree 
2002  International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award  Nominee/Honoree 
2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner! 


Subjects
HISTORY, MODERN_19TH CENTURY


Description/Notes
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
'Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic.' -- Neal, Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London) In this third volume of his four-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development and expansion of the West, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century. 'Though written by a professional historian,' Hobsbawm writes of his own work, '[it] is addressed not to other academics, but to all who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose.' 'It is Mr. Hobsbawm's achievement both to have captured the exuberance of an age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end .... He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of the twentieth century.' -- Paul Kennedy, The Economist (London) 'A virtuoso performance.... Few, if any, present practitioners of the historian's craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Hobsbawm's scholarship.' -- David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review 'A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose.... The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today.' -- James Joll, The New York Review of Books By the author of The Age Of Revolution, The Age Of Capital, And The Age Of Extremes
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