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

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In this masterful and highly accessible study of our times, one of the world's leading historians sheds exciting new light on our understanding of the twentieth century, with incisive assessments of events that have marked this turbulent period. Eric Hobsbawm, whose own life spans this century,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012
Corporate Author: Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, @1994.
Edition:First American Edition.
Subjects:
1900-1999
History, Modern > 20th century.
Civilization, Modern > 20th century.
Histoire > 20e siècle.
Civilisation > 20e siècle.
History, Modern.
Wereldgeschiedenis.
History.
Manuals.
Histoire universelle > 20e siècle.
World history > 20th century.
Student Collection.
Table of 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.

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