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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994Description: xii, 627 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394585755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.82
Contents:
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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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 909.82 H684a 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120289d

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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