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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 Paperback – 13 February 1996

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Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution.

In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers--and, increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.

Includes 32 pages of photos.

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"Penetrating. . . . Offers a powerful interpretation of the wellsprings of an age of unprecedently economic transformation, mass slaughter and social upheaval. . . . Facts roll off Hobsbawm's pages like thunderbolts." --The New Republic

"A magical re-creation of the most creative and destructive, the most utopian and most doubt-ridden period of human history. . . . I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures." --Robert Heilbroner

"Powerful. . . . A bracing and magisterial work." --The New York Times Book Review

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Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He was Emeritus Professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, and Emeritus Universtiy Professor of politics and socity at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of more than fourteen books, including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Empire, and The Jazz Scene. He died in 2012.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; First Edition (13 February 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679730052
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679730057
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.36 x 3.68 x 20.19 cm
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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA (/ˈhɒbz.bɔːm/; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism. His best-known works include his trilogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions".

Hobsbawm was born in Egypt but spent his childhood mostly in Vienna and Berlin. Following the death of his parents and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, Hobsbawm moved to London with his adoptive family, then obtained his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge before serving in the Second World War. In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. He was President of Birkbeck, University of London from 2002 until his death. In 2003 he received the Balzan Prize for European History since 1900 "for his brilliant analysis of the troubled history of twentieth-century Europe and for his ability to combine in-depth historical research with great literary talent."

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Rob Ward (Flickr: HayFestivalA-011.jpg) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Queren
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente obra
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O livro chegou em perfeito estado e a entrega foi muito rápida. Excelente livro e experiência de compra.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good book, good shape upon delivery!
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Got this book for a History class in University and it is written very well. Not at all does it read like a textbook. Feels more like general interest and KEEPS your interest.
Well written. Came in good shape and quickly too.
I'm interested in checking out some more of his books on other 'ages'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Age of Extremes - An Extremely Important Book
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This is the first history book I've ever read where the point of view of the author was not American. I learned so much about modern history as it was as opposed to how American historians want us to think it was. I learned a great deal about Russia that totally changed my understanding about that country and its leaders and policies. Hobsbawm's explanation of the Cold War was very eye opening. I have read Fractured Times by this author and expected equal excellence with this book. I was not disappointed. If anyone is interested in an incredible overview of what Hobsbawm refers to as the "short twentieth century", this is the book to read. It clarifies historical fact from historical prejudice and provides the reader with an understanding of cause and effect as it pertains to the 1900s.

My study buddy and I went from this book to Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self, the Making of the Modern Identity. Last year we began a journey of self discovery in relationship to our particular place in the world we inhabit. We began with Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. This allowed us to investigate our life views in relationship to the world of today. From there we read Michael Levenson's book, Modernism. We actually read that one twice. This book was exhilarating in that we discovered from where many of our ideas concerning life came from. Next we encountered Hobsbawm's book, Fractured Times, Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century which, in turn, brought us to The Age of Extremes: A History of the World. Our plan, when we finish Taylor, is to embark on the two volume work by Peter Gay, The Enlightenment:The Rise of Modern Paganism. At that point, we will pick back up Hobsbawm's multi-volume history of the modern world starting this time from the beginning. My firm belief is you cannot know where you are going unless you know from where you came. These remarkable books are allowing us to do that.

I am amazed that my searching out of books dealing with the subject matter my friend and I have been exploring has been as fruitful as it has been. Hobsbawm has been and will continue to be an integral part of our studies. He is an incredible writer with a sense of clarity in his thought that is very rare. While being objective in his approach, he never becomes unattached as a human being from his subject matter. This is why, for me, he is such an important writer. The Age of Extremes is as great of a book as you will ever encounter.
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C'est un ouvrage essentiel qui constitue par soi un " must " pour les fans de l'histoire contemporain. A lire en solo ou bien après les deux autres ouvrages de la série The Age of Capital et ensuite Age of Empire (un chef d'oeuvre).
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5.0 out of 5 stars For a moment 'we' agreed: we will never live under fascism! Let's not let them down.
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I've read 100's of history books - (really, I'm old). Fritz Stern and Barbara Tuchman are my favorites. I came to Hobsbawm only a few years ago - just after he died and I was sad to not have been able to send him a note of appreciation for his work. "Extremes" is the 4th book of his I have read and treasured. WHY it is worth reading all Hobsbawm books: He 'tells' the stories of history from a global platform and from all angles. I felt foolish to not recognize that my LONG list of reading was actually very narrow (both fiction/non), in that aside from a few, most authors were American. In "Extremes" I 'heard' from almost all the countries in WWI and WWII - what was Mao and Kim Il-sung doing? what about Argentina and Peru? where was Spain in all this? Hobsbawm tells you, because the BIG events of the world effect ALL people and are laying the groundwork for the next 'phase' of history. Not all participants had the same political philosophies motivating their approach to war, however, you can feel Hobsbawm's deep appreciation for the bottom line of WWII: It was the clear and moral rejection of fascism - the evil idea that was bigger than Mussolini and Hitler. And to pause and appreciate that for a brief time 'we' - the opponents of fascism - were all on the same page. (This section of the book is particularly relevant right now, especially in 'sifting' out what really ARE our values at the very bottom line - if you know that answer, you will know when those base values are being threatened and eroded - but first you MUST know.)

AND ART! There is no Hobsbawm book without learning about art - the visual and poetic representation of history, culture, politics, love, anger, disillusionment, rebellion... Art telling us to "look out!" and "here's what war FEELS like" and DADA - (like Mikey they hate everything). Hobsbawm is not the easiest read. But if you love language and old school sentence structure...and actually wanted to sit in a lecture hall and listen to an eloquent English speaker - who actually participated in some of the events contained in this book - Hobsbawm's your guy.
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