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

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

Modern History #4

Eric Hobsbawm

672 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with...

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