The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.
- Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
- Date:
- 1996
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Vintage Books, 1996.
Physical description
xii, 627 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Notes
Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1994.
Includes index.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-614).
Contents
The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts 1914-1945 -- End of empires -- Cold War -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- Rèal socialism' -- The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies - the arts after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices - the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.
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ISBN
- 0679730052
- 9780679730057