Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism - Softcover

Hobsbawm, E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349120668 ISBN 13: 9780349120669

Publisher: Abacus, 2008

Synopsis

In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, eric hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism as we are only too aware, all of these have the power to affect our daily lives, from the state of our economies to the fear of murderous bomb attacks in our cities hobsbawm discusses war and peace in our lifetime, problems of public order, anarchy and terrorism, nationalism and the changing nature of the nation-state, and the future prospects for democracy, setting out the historical background and the lessons it can offer us above all, he turns his piercing gaze to the middle east and western imperialismengaging, erudite and demonstrating his characteristically firm grasp of the facts and statistics, hobsbawms essays are indispensable to our understanding of the world we live in

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A distinguished historian, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries.

Review:

** 'Hobsbawm is one of the leading intellectual authors of the concepts and language in which all of us now discuss our situation. He sketches here with great lucidity and his usual effortless compression the new landscape of the 21st century * GUARDIAN * ** 'Britain's greatest living left-wing historian . . . GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM picks up where the bestselling AGE OF EXTREMES and THE NEW CENTURY left off * THE SCOTSMAN * ** 'This collection of recent essays gives a good sense of the vigour and passion with which this famous intellectual surveys the contemporary world * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * ** 'Hobsbawm is as intellectually lively and politically provocative as ever in these lectures on the "barbarisation" of society through technology, economic activity and globalisation * THE TIMES *

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0349120668
• ISBN 13: 9780349120669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192