The Age of Revolution 1789-1848

Hobsbawm, E.J.

ISBN 10: 0349104808 / ISBN 13: 9780349104805

Verlag: TSP, London

Beschreibung

Paperback. 356pp. first in the marxist historian's trilogy. Two selections of black and white plates. Bookclub edition. Slightly tanned. Faint marks to fore-edge else clean and sound. Good+, sound copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24316

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Titel: The Age of Revolution 1789-1848

Verlag: TSP, London

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Good+, sound copy

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The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.

In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgoisie composed of those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and accelerating material and moral progress.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Eric Hobsbawm was a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before retirement he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and after retirement at the New School for Social Research in New York. Previous books include AGE OF EXTREMES, THE AGE OF REVOLUTION and THE AGE OF EMPIRE. He died 1st October 2012