The age of revolution : Europe, 1789-1848

Overview: Eric Hobsbawm, a self-confessed "unrepentant communist" was professor emeritus of economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck. He has written many acclaimed historical works, including a trilogy on the nineteenth-century; The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, and The Age of Empire and is the author of The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century 1914-1991 and his recent autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes. Review The work is challenging, learned, brilliant in its analytical power, wide-ranging in its lucid exposition of literary, aesthetic and scientific achievments and packed with novel insight. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Brilliant. TLS From the Inside Flap This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes. The First In Eric Hobsbawm's Dazzling Trilogy On The History Of The Nineteenth Century. Between 1789 And 1848 The World Was Transformed Both By The French Revolution And Also By The Industrial Revolution That Originated In Britain. This 'dual Revolution' Created The Modern World As We Know It. Eric Hobsbawm Traces With Brilliant Analytical Clarity The Transformation Brought About In Every Sphere Of European Life By The Dual Revolution - In The Conduct Of War And Diplomacy; In New Industrial Areas And On The Land; Among Peasantry, Bourgeoisie And Aristocracy; In Methods Of Government And Of Revolution; In Science, Philosophy And Religion; In Literature And The Arts. But Above All He Sees This As The Period When Industrial Capitalism Established The Domination Over The Rest Of The World It Was To Hold For A Century. Eric Hobsbawm's Enthralling And Original Account Is An Impassioned But Objective History Of The Most Significant Sixty Years In The History Of Europe.