“Eric Hobsbawm is one of the few genuinely great historians of our century.” —The New Republic
“Brilliant. . . . [This period] must be understood from a global perspective. Hobsbawm is at his best when he dissects the bourgeois culture of ‘repectability.'” —The New York Times Book Review
“One of the great achievements of historical writing in recent decades.” —The New York Review of Books
