Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of foxing to top edge, binding tight. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly small marks) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and by an earlier owner (in barely visible gold highlighter) on approximately 60 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-1055
Title: The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0679721754
ISBN 13: 9780679721758
Publisher: Vintage Books (Random House)
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: BRITISH EMPIRE, MARXISM, NATIONALISM
Bookseller catalogs: English History; Economic history;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...