The Age of Extremes
Subtitle: A History of the World, 1914-1991
Publisher: Vintage
Published: February 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780679730057
Subjects: Modern history; History, Modern; History - General History; History: World; Modern - 20th Century; History / Modern / 20th Century; 1900-1999 (20th century); 20th century
First sentence: Lines of grey muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, Flounders in mud.
Description: "Hobsbawm divides the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945; the Golden Age, 1947-1973; and the Landslide, 1973-1991 and moves data into an era whose revolutions have transformed us more thoroughly than in any period--Publisher's description.