The Age of Capital - Softcover

Hobsbawm, E. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451617630 ISBN 13: 9780451617637

Publisher: New Amer Library, 1979

Synopsis

a history of the rise of capital as the driving force in economic development

About this title

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York. All his books have been translated into several languages.

Review

NEW STATESMAN * 'A book filled with pleasures for the connoisseur and amateur alike' * AJP TAYLOR, OBSERVER * 'Excellent' * ASA BRIGGS * 'Brilliant and wide ranging' * What a book! For heaven's sake, and your own, read it! GUARDIAN * 'Brilliantly conceived and equally brilliantly written' *

Edition details

• Publisher: New Amer Library
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0451617630
• ISBN 13: 9780451617637
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 393