The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679772538 (0679772537)
Publish date: November 26th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Economics,
Politics,
19th Century,
European History,
World History,
French Revolution
Series: History of Civilisation
Hard to imagine a better, more thoughtful, more thoroughly digested and original survey of a period which I wanted and needed to know much more about.
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