The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm

apr. 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Lest av Hugh Kermode

Om denne lydboken

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 an 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 analysis of the trends that created the new order. With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm identifies this epoch's winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science, and religion.

Om forfatteren

Born in 1917, Eric Hobsbawm was Emeritus Professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London, and Emeritus Universtiy Professor of politics and society at the New School for Social Research. His books include The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, The Age of Extremes, and The Jazz Scene.