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  • Fractured Times

    Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age Of Extremes

    1914-1991

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of the troubled twentieth century and makes challenging predicitions for the future. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fractured Times

    Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Age of Capital

    1848-1875

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    A magisterial account of the rise of capitalismEric Hobsbawm's magnificent treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 is a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Age of Revolution

    1789-1848

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Jazz Scene

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    The Age of Extremes

    1914-1991

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 39 min

    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 ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Primitive Rebels

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants, Mafiosi, Spanish Civil War anarchy, pre-industrial mobs and riots - all of which have fed in to our notions of dissent in the modern world.Coining now ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Age of Empire

    1875-1914

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • On Empire

    America, War, and Global Supremacy

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    In these four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium.With his usual measured and brilliant historical perspective, Eric Hobsbawm traces the rise of American hegemony in the twenty-first century. He examines ... Read more

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  • Captain Swing

    by Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude ...
    The classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830, from one of the greatest historians of our age. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play—and when capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, tensions reached the breaking point. ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD