The Age of Capital, 1848-1875

By Eric J. Hobsbawm

Book Overview

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684144506
• ISBN13: 9780684144504
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

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name a single European event that happened between 1848 and 1875...quick! My guess is that a lot of non-Europeans would have a hard time with that one. Yet it was an astonishingly influential period, the time when both capitalism and imperialism became truly, irreversibly entrentched. Hobsbawm tells the tale masterfully. Reading the book, it's hard to believe he didn't actually live through this time himself. The book is a superb marriage of narrative with historical detail. Read it. Read all three.