The Age of Empire : 1875-1914

Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
 9780679721758
0-679-72175-4

Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition.

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with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century.