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Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a British historian known for his influential works on the history of capitalism, socialism, and revolution. He was a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a member of the British Academy.
Known for: The Age of Capital, The Age Of Empire: 1875–1914, The Age Of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, The Age of Extremes: 1914–1991: The Short Twentieth Century, The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848, The Invention of Tradition
Books by Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital
The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 is a historical analysis by Eric Hobsbawm that explores the development of global capitalism during the mid-nineteenth century. It examines the social, political, and eco...
The Age Of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is the third volume in Eric Hobsbawm’s acclaimed series on the modern world. It explores the period between the late nineteenth century and the outbreak of the First World...
The Age Of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a historical analysis of the twentieth century by British historian Eric Hobsbawm. The book divides the century into three distinct perio...
The Age of Extremes: 1914–1991: The Short Twentieth Century
A sweeping historical analysis of the twentieth century, Eric Hobsbawm’s 'The Age of Extremes' examines the period from World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book explores the political...
The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848
The first volume in Eric Hobsbawm’s acclaimed trilogy, this book explores the transformative period between the French Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. It examines how political upheaval, indus...
The Invention of Tradition
This influential collection of essays explores how many traditions that appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented. The contributors analyze how such traditions ...
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The Stabilization of Political Order and the Decline of Revolutionary Movements
The early 1850s marked the exhaustion of revolutionary energy. The radical hopes of 1848—national unification, democratic freedom, and the rights of labor—had been crushed by the restoration of conservative and bourgeois regimes. Yet this political setback created the conditions for economic transfo...
From The Age of Capital
The Expansion of Industrial Capitalism and the Acceleration of Technological Innovation
At the heart of this new epoch lay an extraordinary economic engine. Between 1850 and 1875, industrial capitalism experienced what can only be called its heroic age. Britain, already the workshop of the world, saw its model replicated and challenged by the burgeoning powers of France, Belgium, and t...
From The Age of Capital
The Economic Transformation
By the late nineteenth century, capitalism had reached an unprecedented stage of maturity. The world economy was no longer a constellation of national markets but a unified system linked by global trade, finance, and industrial production. As I observed in my research, this was the era when technolo...
From The Age Of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Empire
The title of this book captures the heart of its historical drama. The closing decades of the nineteenth century marked the high tide of European imperialism—a vast extension of political, economic, and cultural dominance. Britain’s empire stood peerless, yet the competitive expansion of France, Ger...
From The Age Of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Catastrophe (1914–1945)
The first third of the short twentieth century was dominated by catastrophe. The First World War shattered the certainties of the nineteenth century—the belief in reason, progress, and civilization. Europe, which had stood as the center of the world economy and culture, tore itself apart in mechaniz...
From The Age Of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991
Collapse of the Old Order
The war’s aftermath saw the definitive end of European dominance. The old imperial order, sustained for centuries through colonial expansion and economic supremacy, could not recover from the trauma of two global conflicts. Europe’s physical destruction was immense, its economic power eclipsed by th...
From The Age Of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a British historian known for his influential works on the history of capitalism, socialism, and revolution. He was a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a member of the British Academy. His 'Age' series is regarded as a cornerstone of modern histor...
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a British historian known for his influential works on the history of capitalism, socialism, and revolution. He was a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a member of the British Academy. His 'Age' series is regarded as a cornerstone of modern histor...
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a British historian known for his influential works on the history of capitalism, socialism, and revolution. He was a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a member of the British Academy. His 'Age' series is regarded as a cornerstone of modern historical scholarship.
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