Best Seller
La era de las revoluciones / Age of Revolutions
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Published on Sep 22, 2026 | 448 Pages
El presentador de CNN y autor de éxitos de ventas analiza las revoluciones —pasadas y presentes— que definen la época polarizada e inestable en la que vivimos.
«Pocos pensadores pueden captar la complejidad de este momento, pero Fareed Zakaria lo hace con maestría». —The Wall Street Journal
A lo largo de la historia moderna, las revoluciones han impulsado las libertades y el progreso, pero también han suscitado violentas reacciones en contra. En La era de las revoluciones, Fareed Zakaria traza un ambicioso recorrido por los grandes momentos de transformación que han configurado el mundo contemporáneo, desde el surgimiento del liberalismo hasta las inestabilidades que hoy amenazan con hacerlo retroceder.
El relato arranca en la República Holandesa del siglo XVII, primera superpotencia moderna y refugio de la libertad individual, cuyas ideas se propagaron en Inglaterra con la Revolución Gloriosa. Continúa con la Revolución francesa, ejemplo del peligro que entrañan los cambios radicales impuestos desde arriba, y con la Revolución Industrial, la «madre de todas las revoluciones», que empujó a Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos al liderazgo global, al tiempo que sembraba profundas divisiones sociales y políticas.
La globalización, la transformación tecnológica, la política identitaria y el retorno de la rivalidad entre las grandes potencias constituyen las grandes revoluciones de nuestro tiempo. Y ya nos están enfrentando a enormes retos. Ante el auge de la furia populista, el deterioro de las democracias y la amenaza del tribalismo, el autor lanza una importante advertencia: la gran fortaleza del liberalismo -liberar a los individuos- puede convertirse también en su mayor debilidad si su avance deja tras de sí un vacío moral y social, porque es en ese vacío donde prosperan los movimientos reaccionarios.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A New York Times Bestseller • A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2024
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?
In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world—and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution, an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world.
Alongside these paradigm-shifting historical events, Zakaria probes four present-day revolutions: globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics. For all their benefits, the globalization and technology revolutions have produced profound disruptions and pervasive anxiety and our identity.
And increasingly, identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century’s polarized politics are fought. All this is set against a geopolitical revolution as great as the one that catapulted the United States to world power in the late nineteenth century. Now we are entering a world in which the US is no longer the dominant power. As we find ourselves at the nexus of four seismic revolutions, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria proves that pessimism is premature. If we act wisely, the liberal international order can be revived and populism relegated to the ash heap of history.
As few public intellectuals can, Zakaria combines intellectual range, deep historical insight, and uncanny prescience to once again reframe and illuminate our turbulent present. His bold, compelling arguments make this book essential reading in our age of revolutions.
«Pocos pensadores pueden captar la complejidad de este momento, pero Fareed Zakaria lo hace con maestría». —The Wall Street Journal
A lo largo de la historia moderna, las revoluciones han impulsado las libertades y el progreso, pero también han suscitado violentas reacciones en contra. En La era de las revoluciones, Fareed Zakaria traza un ambicioso recorrido por los grandes momentos de transformación que han configurado el mundo contemporáneo, desde el surgimiento del liberalismo hasta las inestabilidades que hoy amenazan con hacerlo retroceder.
El relato arranca en la República Holandesa del siglo XVII, primera superpotencia moderna y refugio de la libertad individual, cuyas ideas se propagaron en Inglaterra con la Revolución Gloriosa. Continúa con la Revolución francesa, ejemplo del peligro que entrañan los cambios radicales impuestos desde arriba, y con la Revolución Industrial, la «madre de todas las revoluciones», que empujó a Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos al liderazgo global, al tiempo que sembraba profundas divisiones sociales y políticas.
La globalización, la transformación tecnológica, la política identitaria y el retorno de la rivalidad entre las grandes potencias constituyen las grandes revoluciones de nuestro tiempo. Y ya nos están enfrentando a enormes retos. Ante el auge de la furia populista, el deterioro de las democracias y la amenaza del tribalismo, el autor lanza una importante advertencia: la gran fortaleza del liberalismo -liberar a los individuos- puede convertirse también en su mayor debilidad si su avance deja tras de sí un vacío moral y social, porque es en ese vacío donde prosperan los movimientos reaccionarios.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A New York Times Bestseller • A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2024
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?
In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world—and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution, an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world.
Alongside these paradigm-shifting historical events, Zakaria probes four present-day revolutions: globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics. For all their benefits, the globalization and technology revolutions have produced profound disruptions and pervasive anxiety and our identity.
And increasingly, identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century’s polarized politics are fought. All this is set against a geopolitical revolution as great as the one that catapulted the United States to world power in the late nineteenth century. Now we are entering a world in which the US is no longer the dominant power. As we find ourselves at the nexus of four seismic revolutions, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria proves that pessimism is premature. If we act wisely, the liberal international order can be revived and populism relegated to the ash heap of history.
As few public intellectuals can, Zakaria combines intellectual range, deep historical insight, and uncanny prescience to once again reframe and illuminate our turbulent present. His bold, compelling arguments make this book essential reading in our age of revolutions.
