The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914 - 1991

ISBN  978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]97300

Opis: 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 ignominously. 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.

Only a historian with the breadth of vision and narrative gifts of Eric Hobsbawm could encompass these events as he does in The Age of Extremes. Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1[zasłonięte]914-19; the Golden Age, 1[zasłonięte]947-19; and the Landslide, 1[zasłonięte]973-19, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a definitive portrait of an era whose revolutions have transformed us more thoroughly than any upheavals in any period since the Stone Age. Here is a history of astonishing vibrancy, inclusiveness, and insight, written by an unchallenged master of his art.