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  • The Age of Extremes

  • 1914-1991
  • Written by: Eric Hobsbawm
  • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
  • Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution.

In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers - and, increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.
©1994 The Trustees of the Eric Hobsbawm Literary Estate (P)2020 Tantor
Politics & Government Wars & Conflicts 20th Century Extreme History
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4th of Hobsbawm's Quartet of Age books

This one aged least well, but it is still rewarding reading. Some of his language or the way he frames questions, however appropriate in 1995, just don't translate as well to 2023.
You will learn a great deal, nonetheless, and he juxtaposes some events or ideas in novel ways.

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