The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 (History Greats)

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1989
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The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth 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.

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The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 01 Feb 1989
ISBN 10: 0349105987
ISBN 13: 9780349105987
Book Overview: Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great

Media Reviews

Magnificent * The GUARDIAN *
A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable * Sunday TIMES *
A superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and political * TLS *
Hobsbawm is a master historian * INDEPENDENT *

Author Bio

Eric Hobsbawn is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New York School for Social Reseach in New York.