Book · 1962 · Nonfiction

The Age of Revolution

Name: The Age of Revolution
Author: Eric Hobsbawm

1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 368 pages

★ 6.6 editorial score

Two revolutions, one political in France and one industrial in Britain, fused into a single upheaval that remade work, politics, art, and belief. Historians still carve up the nineteenth century along Hobsbawm's lines.

Genre

History Economic history Political history

Subject

French Revolution Industrial Revolution Capitalism Revolution

Setting

Europe

Time

1962Depicts 19th century

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