The Age Of Extremes : 1914-1991

The Short Twentieth Century: 1914-1991

Paperback, 627 pages

English language

Published Sept. 13, 1996 by Little Brown and Company.

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978-0-349-10671-7
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Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a messianic faith and then collapsed ignominiously. Peasants became city dwellers, housewives became workers—and, increasingly leaders. Populations became literate even as new technologies threatened to make print obsolete. And the driving forces of history swung from Europe to its former colonies.

6 editions

Subjects

  • World history: from c 1900 -
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Inter-war period, 1918-1939
  • Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
  • Second World War, 1939-1945
  • History - General History
  • History: World
  • Modern - 20th Century