TY - BOOK AU - Hobsbawm E. J. TI - The age of empire, 1875-1914 SN - 9780349105987 AV - D359.7 PY - 1987/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld and Nicolson N1 - 1 The Centenarian Revolution 2 An Economy Changes Gear 3 The Age of Empire 4 The Politics of Democracy 5 Workers of the World 6 Waving Flags: Nations and Nationalism 7 Who's who or the Uncertainities of the Bourgeoisie 8 The New Woman 9 The Arts Transformed 10 Certainities Undermined: The Sciences 11 Reason and Society 12 Towards Revolution 13 From Peace to War N2 - 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 with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century ER -