The Age of Extremes  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 16:22, 1 October 2012
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

← Previous diff
Revision as of 16:04, 28 April 2014
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)
(The Age of Extremes moved to The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991)
Next diff →

Revision as of 16:04, 28 April 2014

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state communism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an equally skeptical take on the progress of the arts and changes in society in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Hobsbawm calls the period from the start of World War I to the fall of the so-called Soviet bloc "the short twentieth century", to follow on "the long 19th century", the period from the start of the French Revolution in 1789 to the start of World War I in 1914, which he covered in an earlier trilogy of histories (The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875, The Age of Empire: 1875–1914). In the United States, the book was published with the subtitle A History of the World, 1914–1991 (ISBN 978-0-679-73005-7).




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Age of Extremes" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools