The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991
by
 
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-

Title
The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991

Author
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-

ISBN
9780679730057

Personal Author
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-

Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.

Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, [1996]

Physical Description
xii, 627 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

General Note
Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1994.
 
Includes index.

Contents
The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts 1914-1945 -- End of empires -- Cold War -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- R̀eal socialism' -- The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies - the arts after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices - the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.

Subject Term
History, Modern -- 20th century.


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