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Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawn is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New York School for Social Reseach in New York.

Reviews

'Magnificent' - THE GUARDIAN 'A superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readable' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and political' - TLS 'Hobsbawm is a master historian' - INDEPENDENT 'Excellently written... a classic.' OBSERVER 'Eric Hobsbawm is arguably our greatest living historian- not only Britain's but the world's' SPECTATOR