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

Title
The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.
Author
Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, [1996]

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Description
xii, 627 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
Note
  • Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1994.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-614).
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.
ISBN
0679730052
OCLC
  • ocm34299726
  • SCSB-3377152
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries