The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

US: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, art s, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful p rose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth cen tury. Editorial Reviews "Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic." --Neal, Asch erson, Sunday Observer (London) "It is Mr. Hobsbawm's achievement both to have captured the exuberance of a n age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end. . . . He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of t he twentieth century." --Kennedy, The Economist (London) "A virtuoso performance. . . . Few, if any, present practitioners of the hi storian's craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr. Hobsbawm's scholarship." --David M. Kennedy, The New York Times Book Re view "A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians n o longer write readable prose. . . . The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today." --James Joll, The New York Review of Books - From the Publisher In this sequel to The Age of Capital , the author ``probes the contradictions of a largely tranquil age that stood on the brink of global slaughter. Hobsbawm's delvings possess a breadth and depth that few historians have equaled, and this w.