"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 Booksīy the author of The Age Of Revolution, The Age Of Capital, And The Age Of Extremes "A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (History Greats) by Hobsbawm, E J (Eric J ) - ISBN 10: 0349105987 - ISBN 13: 9780349105987 - Abacus (UK) - 1994 - Softcover. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Few, if any, present practitioners of the historian's craft can equal. He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of the twentieth century." - Paul Kennedy, The Economist (London) 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.
ABACUS HISTORY GREATS PROFESSIONAL
"Though written by a professional historian," Hobsbawm writes of his own work, " is addressed not to other academics, but to all who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose." In this third volume of his four-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development and expansion of the West, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century.
"Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic." - Neal, Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London)
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