The Age Of Empire

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawn's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the era of western imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War 1 - and shaped modern society.

“Magnificent - The GUARDIANA superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable - Sunday TIMESA superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and political - TLSHobsbawm is a master historian - INDEPENDENT”

'Magnificent' - THE GUARDIAN 'A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and political' - TLS 'Hobsbawm is a master historian' - INDEPENDENT 'Excellently written... a classic.' OBSERVER 'Eric Hobsbawm is arguably our greatest living historian- not only Britain's but the world's' SPECTATOR

Eric Hobsbawn is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New York School for Social Reseach in New York.

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.

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