Europe

The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

Name: The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
Author: Eric J. Hobsbawm
ISBN: 9781842120163

by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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Overview

It is about Queen Victoria, Madame Curie and the Kodak Girl, and the novel social world of cloth caps, golf clubs and brassieres, about Nietzsche, Carnegie, William Morris and Dreyfus, about politically ineffective terrorists, one of whom, ...

Synopsis

This text is concerned with the strange death of the 19th century, the world made by and for the liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilization. It is about hopes realised which turned into fear as an era of unparalled peace engendered an era of unparalled war.