Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
$28.59
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2014
Summary
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed, the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-si cle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, Cit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349139091 |
| Author: | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 126mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
Eric Hobsbawm wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power, qualities evident in this posthumously published collection
Eric Hobsbawm wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power, qualities evident in this posthumously published collection – Richard J Evans * Guardian *
Reveals on every page [Hobsbawm’s] characteristic boldness of interpretation, astonishing range and versatility * Fractured Times *
Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before retirement he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and after retirement at the New School for Social Research in New York. His previous books include The Age of Extremes, The Age of Revolution and The Age of Empire. He died at the age of ninety-five in October 2012.
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