Globalisation, Democracy And Terrorism
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2008
Summary
Now in B format.
An engaging and provocative survey of our current globalised world from one of Britain’s foremost political historians.
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of ter…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120669 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349120668 |
| Author: | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 196mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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** ‘Hobsbawm is as intellectually lively and politically provocative as ever in these lectures on the “barbarisation” of society through technology, economic activity and globalisation - THE TIMES
** ‘This collection of recent essays gives a good sense of the vigour and passion with which this famous intellectual surveys the contemporary world - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH** ‘Britain’s greatest living left-wing historian … GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM picks up where the bestselling AGE OF EXTREMES and THE NEW CENTURY left off - THE SCOTSMAN** ‘Hobsbawm is one of the leading intellectual authors of the concepts and language in which all of us now discuss our situation. He sketches here with great lucidity and his usual effortless compression the new landscape of the 21st century - GUARDIANAbout The Author
Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A distinguished historian, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries.
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