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Eric hobsbawm was born in alexandria in 1917 and educated in austria, germany and england. Eric hobsbawm, libro the age of extremes the age of extremes 1992, context. From his early books on the industrial revolution and european empires, to his magisterial 1995 study of the short twentieth century, age of extremes, hobsbawm has become known as one of the finest practitioners of his craft. The topics on which hobsbawm focuses are the advent of total war, the russian revolution, the great depression, the end of liberalism and the. Con estas palabras inicia eric hobsbawm historia del siglo xx. The old moral vocabulary of rights and duties, mutual obligations, sin and virtue, sacrifice, conscience, rewards, and penalties, could no longer be translated into the new language of desired gratification. Eric hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Essays on globalization, democracy and terrorism traductor. Robert heilbroner, writing about hobsbawms the age of extremes 19141991 said, i know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures. Age of extremes is broadly chronological, but does not offer a narrative of events, instead tackling broad themes in nineteen largely selfcontained chapters. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. The only two chapters apart from the appendices and updated postscript that were most relevant and interesting, were the ones regarding the role the russian anarchist bandits played during the early 20thc but hobsbawm really does not like them, being anarchists and so on up until the civil war after the 1917 revolution oddly, nestor makhno is not mentioned in this short book, and the.

In addition to the age of revolution, the age of capital, the age of empire and the age of extremes, his books include bandits, revolutionaries, uncommon people, and his memoir interesting times. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In many ways the memoirs of a great observer can prove to be more interesting than a great actor or mover of events. Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible short century. Era dos extremos 9788571644687 livros na amazon brasil. Robert heilbroner, writing about hobsbawm s the age of extremes 19141991 said, i know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures. He taught at birkbeck college, university of london, and then at the new school for social research in new york. Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than eric hobsbawm. Taking an almost godlike view on the immense historical events that constituted this great historians life, eric hobsbawm takes us on the long journey through his encounter with the twentieth century.