It's sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic. - Neal Ascherson, Sunday Observer (London) In this third volume of his fourth-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development and expansion of the West, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century. Though written by a professional historian, Hobsbawm writes of his own work, [it] is addressed not to other academics, ut to all who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose. It is Mr. Hobsbawm's chievement both to have captured the exuberance of an age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end
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