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

By: Hobsbawm, E. JMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York Vintage Books 1994Description: xii, 627 pISBN: 9780349106717LOC classification: D421
Contents:
Part I. The Age of Catastrophe 1. The Age of Total War 2. The World Revolution 3. Into the Economic Abyss 4. The Fall of Liberalism 5. Against the Common Enemy 6. The Arts 1914–1945 7. End of Empires Part II. The Golden Age 8. Cold War 9. The Golden Years 10. The Social Revolution 1945–1990 11. Cultural Revolution 12. The Third World 13. 'Real Socialism' Part III. The Landslide 14. The Crisis Decades 15. Third World and Revolution 16. End of Socialism 17. The Avant-Garde Dies: The Arts After 1950 18. Sorcerers and Apprentices: The Natural Sciences 19. Towards the Millennium
Summary: Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers and increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.
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Part I. The Age of Catastrophe
1. The Age of Total War
2. The World Revolution
3. Into the Economic Abyss
4. The Fall of Liberalism
5. Against the Common Enemy
6. The Arts 1914–1945
7. End of Empires
Part II. The Golden Age
8. Cold War
9. The Golden Years
10. The Social Revolution 1945–1990
11. Cultural Revolution
12. The Third World
13. 'Real Socialism'
Part III. The Landslide
14. The Crisis Decades
15. Third World and Revolution
16. End of Socialism
17. The Avant-Garde Dies: The Arts After 1950
18. Sorcerers and Apprentices: The Natural Sciences
19. Towards the Millennium

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution.

In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers and increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.

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