Collected in a modern and bold box, Eric Hobsbawm's trilogy dedicated to the 19th century and the origins of the modern world returns to bookstores, with new covers and revised editions.
British Marxist historian Eric J. Hobsbawm is one of the most renowned intellectuals of the 20th century. The box set "The Ages" brings together his trilogy on the history of the modern world, from the French Revolution to the First World War. The three titles are essential references for understanding the current world and its political climate.
In The Age of Revolutions – 1789–1848 , Eric Hobsbawm investigates the impact of what has become known as the double revolution: the French Revolution of 1789 and the contemporary English Industrial Revolution.
In The Age of Capital – 1848–1875 , Hobsbawm identifies the institutions, ideologies, science, religion, winners and losers of the short period from 1848 to 1875, when faith in private enterprise and the bourgeois culture of respectability gave new contours to the 19th century.
In The Age of Empires - 1875–1914 , Hobsbawm analyzes the years that shaped the 20th-century world, when a long period of peace, capitalist expansion, and European domination culminated in war and crisis. Hobsbawm also analyzes the creative explosion in culture and the arts—the age of Freud, Einstein, Schönberg, and Picasso.
“ The Age of Revolutions , The Age of Capital , The Age of Empires (...) all display the same astonishing set of qualities: synthesis; richness of detail; global scope, while also providing an acute insight into regional differences; fluency; power of analysis; and, furthermore, remarkable clarity and vividness.” – London Review of Books