Hobsbawm, Eric

The age of extremes : a history of the world, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm - xii, 627 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-609) and index.

Part one : the age of catastrophe 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 Part two : the golden age Cold War The golden years The social revolution, 1945-1990 Cultural revolution The third world 'Real socialism' Part three : the landslide 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

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History, Modern--20th century

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