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Age of extremes : the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.
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3263
Author:
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric John), 1917-, author.;
Publisher:
London :: Abacus,
Year:
1994.
Description:
xii, 627 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Subject:
History, Modern.;
Twentieth century.;
History, Modern - 20th century.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-609) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0349106711 9780349106717;
Abstract:
Pt. 1. The age of catastrophe. 1. The age of total war -- 2. The world revolution -- 3. Into the economic abyss -- 4. The fall of liberalism -- 5. Against the common enemy -- 6. The arts 1914-45 -- 7. End of empires -- Pt. 2. The golden age. 8. Cold
war -- 9. The golden years -- 10. The social revolution 1945-1990 -- 11. Cultural revolution -- 12. The third world -- 13. 'Real socialism' -- Pt. 3. The landslide. 14. The crisis decades -- 15. Third world and revolution -- 16. End of socialism -- 17. The avant-garde dies - the arts after 1950 -- 18. Sorcerers and apprentices - the natural sciences -- 19. Towards the millennium.

The Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of the troubled twentieth century and makes challenging predicitions for the future.
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