On the Edge of the New Century

Hobsbawm, Eric; Polito, Antonio

ISBN 10: 1565846036 / ISBN 13: 9781565846036

Published by The New Press, 2000

About this Item

176 pages.

Seller Inventory # 76103

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Edge of the New Century
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565846036
• ISBN 13: 9781565846036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Assesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment.

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes, and The New Press has published his books On History, Uncommon People, Industry and Empire, Bandits, On the Edge of the New Century, Revolutionaries, his memoir Interesting Times, On Empire, and Fractured Times. Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012.