Age of Extremes

Eric Hobsbawm

ISBN 10: 0394585755 / ISBN 13: 9780394585758

Published by Pantheon, 1994

About this Item

history of the World 1914-1991. No markings. Dust jacket has light soiling to front and a couple of very small edge tears. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Age of Extremes
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394585755
• ISBN 13: 9780394585758
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

An incisive overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances. 12,500 first printing.

Review

"Penetrating. . . . Offers a powerful interpretation of the wellsprings of an age of unprecedently economic transformation, mass slaughter and social upheaval. . . . Facts roll off Hobsbawm's pages like thunderbolts." --The New Republic

"A magical re-creation of the most creative and destructive, the most utopian and most doubt-ridden period of human history. . . . I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures." --Robert Heilbroner

"Powerful. . . . A bracing and magisterial work." --The New York Times Book Review