The Age of Empire (1875-1914) - Eric Hobsbawm

Written by Eric Hobsbawm
Read by Hugh Kermode
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The Age of Empire
1875-1914
By: Eric Hobsbawm
Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 02-13-20
Language: English

Publisher’s Summary

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm’s study of the 19th century, The Age of Empire covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One - and shaped modern society.
©1987 Eric Hobsbawm (P)1987 Hachette Audio UK

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this sequel to The Age of Capital , the author “probes the contradictions of a largely tranquil age that stood on the brink of global slaughter. Hobsbawm’s delvings possess a breadth and depth that few historians have equaled, and this wide-ranging chronicle is essential to our understanding of a modern world divided into hostile camps,” praised PW.
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Review
“Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic.” —Neal, Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London)

“It is Mr. Hobsbawm’s achievement both to have captured the exuberance of an age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end. . . . He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of the twentieth century.” —Kennedy, The Economist (London)

“A virtuoso performance. . . . Few, if any, present practitioners of the historian’s craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Hobsbawm’s scholarship.” —David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review

“A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose. . . . The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today.” —James Joll, The New York Review of Books
From the Publisher
“A virtuoso performance…Few, if any, present practitioners of the historian’s craft can equal the astonishing range and dazzling craft of Mr. Hobsbawm’s scholarship.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose…The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today.”–The New York Review of Books
From the Inside Flap
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
From the Back Cover
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
About the Author
Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He was Emeritus Professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, and Emeritus Universtiy Professor of politics and socity at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of more than fourteen books, including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Extremes, and The Jazz Scene. He died in 2012.