The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (4 Volume History of the Modern World)


The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (4 Volume History of the Modern World)
The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (4 Volume History of the Modern World) by Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Revolution is a book by Eric Hobsbawm. It's the first of 3 books about "the long 19th century", and The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, is the sequel to the trilogy.


This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.

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