THE AGE OF CAPITAL: 18481875
by E.J. Hobsbawm
Abacus, London. ISBN 0-349-11691-1
Condition: Good. Clean, light wear to edges. Spine uncreased, pages firm with toning
About the Book
The Age of Capital continues E.J. Hobsbawms monumental survey of the modern world, following The Age of Revolution and preceding The Age of Empire. It examines the pivotal quarter-century between the failed revolutions of 1848 and the economic downturn of the mid-1870s years that saw the consolidation of industrial capitalism, the rise of the bourgeois class, and the emergence of a global economic order.
Hobsbawms analysis is panoramic yet human, tracing not only economic systems but also the transformation of art, science, politics, and daily life under the pressures of expansion and inequality. His prose balances erudition with clarity, making vast structural change intelligible through portraits of human aspiration and struggle.
Lauded as a masterwork of modern historiography, it remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the nineteenth centurys revolutions and markets created the world we still inhabit materially, politically, and imaginatively.
About the Author
Eric J. Hobsbawm (19172012) was a British historian of global reputation, renowned for his sweeping analyses of economic and social transformation. His four-volume series (The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, The Age of Extremes) reshaped twentieth-century understanding of modern history through a synthesis of Marxist insight, archival precision, and narrative power.
