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1848 - 1875

by Eric Hobsbawm

507 pages

Greek language

Published July 22, 1996 by Morpho tiko Hidryma Ethnike s Trapeze s.

ISBN:: 978-960-250-088-0
OCLC Number:: 633635218

(9 reviews)

The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 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 1789–1848 and followed by The Age of Empire: 1875–1914. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.

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bwaber reviewed The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm

An Informative But Problematic History

3 stars

This is Hobsbawm's follow up to his book on the previous 50 years, and it's structured quite similarly and has similar benefits and flaws. The chapters that focus on the economy are focused and informative, and are probably the least problematic parts of the book. However, the rest of the book is a fairly by-the-numbers review of European history in this time period, with the huge caveat that Hobsbawm is more openly racist about non-Western cultures here. If you drank every time he calls a people/country "backwards," "savage," or the like you'd be drunk by the end of the first chapter.

Eric Lawton reviewed The age of capital, 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm

Excellent history of its period, from one of the best English historians.

5 stars

Very easy to read, draws lots of connections between all its sub-topics. The only drawback was too much Marx. Not the Marxist perspective, which is an illuminating one and present in all his books, it's just that Marx was active in this period and even the book doesn't show that his influence over the events was sufficient to justify how many times he is mentioned.