The Age Of Capital
1848-1875
$24.30
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2003
Summary
The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throughout the world.
In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: ‘capitalism’. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest marke…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349104805 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349104808 |
| Author: | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 200mm x 26mm |
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What a book! For heaven’s sake, and your own, read it! GUARDIAN - ‘Brilliantly conceived and equally brilliantly written?
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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is 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.
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