The age of extremes
a history of the world, 1914-1991
by Eric Hobsbawm · first published 1994
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In this masterful and highly accessible study of our times, one of the world's leading historians sheds exciting new light on our understanding of the twentieth century, with incisive assessments of events that have marked this turbulent period. Eric Hobsbawm, whose own life spans this century, deftly examines from both personal and scholarly perspectives such events as the great economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War, the rise of military regimes, revolutionary changes in the arts, and technological advances in the sciences. Divided into three parts - The Age of Catastrophe, 191
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Eric Hobsbawm's account of the "long 19th century," as told in his The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Extremes, is something that readers who are interested in Zinn may also be interested in. Hobsbawm appears to have a significantly better reputation among professional historians than Zinn does. Hobsbawm still…
on “We Still Need Howard Zinn” ↗Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke) The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (Hobsbawm) Bhagavad Gita Upanishads Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders (Whyte) Tractatus…
on “Ask HN: Good books?” ↗…His "The Age of..." are worth a read" https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/eric-hobsbawm-t... The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991
on “We Still Need Howard Zinn” ↗Eric Hobsbawm's tetralogy on the long 19th century: Age of Revolution, Age of Capital, Age of Empire, and Age of Extremes. A truly epic date-driven summary of how the industrial and political revolutions of the 19th transformed the world.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗I read his "Age of Extremes"[1], and thought his point that there was an awful lot of Socialism going on in the U.S. system was a cogent one. Arguably he averted his gaze from some of the excesses at the other end of the argument.…
on “The Contradictions of Eric Hobsbawm (2019)” ↗