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Title: Age of Revolution by Eric J. Hobsbawm ISBN: 0-451-62362-2 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: July, 1964 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Serious Economic History
Comment: This is an economic History, so if you want an introduction to this period, this book is NOT the place to start. Read Durant's last two volumes ("Rousseau and Revolution" and "The Age of Napoleon", and/or Gordon A. Craig's "Europe: 1815-1914" if you're looking for details on who was in power, what battles were fought, what the main works of art were, etc.
But if you are curious about why and how the Industrial Revolution created so much hardship and how the French Revolution changed the European attitude toward revolution in general, this is the book to read. Hobsbawm is a well-known Marxist, but it was the events of this age that spawned Marxism, and it behooves us to understand why that was. For this purpose, you couldn't ask for a better guide.
Unfortunately, Hobsbawm is a moderately difficult read. Take it a little bit at a time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Among the best survey's of the era.
Comment: The sign of a well-written and well-argued book is that it is one that challenges your world view by making you re-think and review your position. It doesn't matter that it convinces you, it matters that it makes you sharpen your thought process. The Age of Revolution does this well.
Hobsbawm's Age of Revolution (and his entire "Age of..." series) sees western history in marxian terms, a distinctly non-American approach. I must admit that I have a special affinity for Age of Revolution. I first read it in the early 80's as an undergraduate in history and while it didn't make me anywhere near a marxist it was the first to allow me to see history from a different angle than conventional/traditional histories. I've been a reader of Hobsbawm ever since, disagreeing- often- with his analysis, but always respecting his perspective.
Age of Revolutions deals with the decisive era that began with the French Revolution and ends with the revolutions of 1848 (and includes of course the Industrial Revolution). Hobsbawm writes as from a generalist perspective for the general reader of history (for non-historian's at least some background in Western European history is recommended before tackling this book).
A classic writing of European history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A MASTERPIECE
Comment: It is quite dificult to find a History book who is well written and also makes you think about the subject. This is the main diference about Hobswamn. He makes you think, and I believe this is the main aim for a Historian.
It is curious for me that one of the reviewers complaints about the lack of interest that the author shows for the American revolution. Maybe if we think in the world of XXth century or XXIst one we can consider this situation quite strange, but in the XVIIIth century the new born United States were not important in the world. Besides the influence of the principles of the American constitution cannot be compared with the influence of the French revolution. In the last book of the serie The Age of Catastrophe is when the rol of the United States is more important so he makes a brilliant anylisis of its influence in Contemporary History.
This book and the other three are very didactic and I recomend them as a very useful reading for teachers and pupils. Specially as a teacher I think that this book creates a great starting point to begin a debate at class. Even when your class is full of teenagers who ussually think History is a boring matter.
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Title: The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 by E. J. Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm ISBN: 0679772545 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Age of Empire 1875-1914 by E. J. Hobsbawm ISBN: 0679721754 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by E. J. Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm ISBN: 0679730052 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Nations and Nationalism since 1780 : Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto) by E. J. Hobsbawm ISBN: 0521439612 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Interesting Times : A Twentieth-Century Life by ERIC HOBSBAWM ISBN: 037542234X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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