The Age of Extremes (1914-1991) - Eric Hobsbawm

Category: Adults, Classic, Education, History
Language: English
Keywords: America's atomic bomb Blog Comments Europe Fascism French History Japan Nazism Revolution Socialism World World War

Written by Eric Hobsbawm
Read by Hugh Kermode
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Age of Extremes
1914-1991
By: Eric Hobsbawm
Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 05-19-20
Language: English

Publisher’s Summary

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution.

In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers - and, increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.
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