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The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Capital

1848-1875

By Eric Hobsbawm

By Eric Hobsbawm

Paperback $17.00

Nov 26, 1996 | 368 Pages

The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm
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Nov 26, 1996 | 368 Pages

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About The Age of Capital

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.
    Although it pulses with great events—failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression—The Age of Capital is most outstanding for its analyis of the trends that created the new order.  With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm indentifies this epoch’s winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science, and religion.

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About Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London, and Cambridge. From 1947-1982, Hobsbawm was Professor of Economic and Social History at Birbeck College, University of London. He also taught at Stanford, MIT, Cornell, and the New School for Social Research… More about Eric Hobsbawm

Product Details

Category: History | Economics | Management

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Vintage
Nov 26, 1996 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679772545

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Praise

“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

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