Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 - Hardcover

Hobsbawm, E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297166042 ISBN 13: 9780297166047

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962

Synopsis

Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed by both the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This "Dual Revolution" created the modern world as we know it. Hobsbawm traces the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual Revolution - in the conduct of war and diplomacy; in the new industrial areas and on the land; among peasantry, bougeoise, and aristocracy; in methods of government and of revolution; in science, philosophy and religion; in literature and the arts. But above all he sees this as the period when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for a century.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. He is a fellow of the British Academy and currently lectures for the New York School of Social Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0297166042
• ISBN 13: 9780297166047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376