The Age of Revolution

Hobsbawm, E. J.

ISBN 10: 0451623622 / ISBN 13: 9780451623621

Published by Signet, 1964

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Revolution
• Publisher: Signet
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451623622
• ISBN 13: 9780451623621
• Binding: mass_market
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed both by the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This 'Dual Revolution' created the modern world as we know it.

Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual Revolution - in the conduct of war and diplomacy; in new industrial areas and on the land; among peasantry, bourgeoisie and aristocracy; in methods of government and of revolution; in science, philosophy and religion; in literature and the arts. But above all he sees this as the period when industrial capitalism established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for a century.

Eric Hobsbawm's enthralling and original account is an impassioned but objective history of the most significant sixty years in the history of Europe.

Review

The work is challenging, learned, brilliant in its analytical power, wide-ranging in its lucid exposition of literary, aesthetic and scientific achievments and packed with novel insight. (ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW)

Brilliant. (TLS)