Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
Brand: The New Press
Categories: Books, Business & Money, Economics


Used Book in Good Condition

Dimensions: 5.51 x 0.97 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1565845619
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565845617
Publisher: The New Press
Print length: 411 pages
Publication date: September 1, 1999
subtitle: Paperback – September 1, 1999
author: Eric Hobsbawm Chris Wrigley
review: Editorial Reviews Review A masterly survey of the major economic developments and changes of the last two hundred years, sharply and ironically observed, and elegantly written. -- Guardian An original and masterly reinterpretation of Western economic (not to speak of social and political) history, [from] by far the most gifted economic historian now writing. -- The Listener About the Author Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of The Age of Revolution , The Age of Capital , The Age of Empire , and The Age of Extremes , and The New Press has published his books On History , Uncommon People , Industry and Empire , Bandits , On the Edge of the New Century , Revolutionaries , his memoir Interesting Times , On Empire , and Fractured Times . Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012.