The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 - Hardcover

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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9780684144504: The Age of Capital, 1848-1875

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ISBN 10: 0684144506 ISBN 13: 9780684144504

Publisher: Encore Editions, 1975

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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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Review:

"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

From the Publisher:

“His two great syntheses on the origins of the society we inhabit –the Age of Revolution and The Age of Capital – have become part of the mental furniture of educated Englishmen” Guardian

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