3 Eric Hobsbawm books covering 19th century history

The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789ΓÇô1848 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962. It is the first in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), followed by The Age of Capital: 1848ΓÇô1875, and The Age of Empire: 1875ΓÇô1914. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914ΓÇô1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.
Hobsbawm analyzed the early 19th century, and indeed the whole process of modernization thereafter, using what he calls the twin revolution thesis. This thesis recognized the dual importance of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as mid-wives of modern European history, and ΓÇô through the connections of colonialism and imperialism ΓÇô world history.


ISBN	0-679-77253-7
OCLC Number	34576637
Dewey Decimal	940.2/7 20
LC Classification	D299 .H6 1996

The Age of Capital: 1848ΓÇô1875 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789ΓÇô1848 and followed by The Age of Empire: 1875ΓÇô1914. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914ΓÇô1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.
Hobsbawm analyzed the 19th and 20th century processes of modernization using what he calls the twin revolution thesis. This thesis recognized the dual importance of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as mid-wives of modern European history, and ΓÇô through the connections of colonialism and imperialism ΓÇô world history.

ISBN	0-297-76992-8

The Age of Empire: 1875ΓÇô1914 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1987. It is the third in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789ΓÇô1848 and The Age of Capital: 1848ΓÇô1875. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914ΓÇô1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.

ISBN	0-521-43773-3

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