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Fractured Times
Eric Hobsbawm
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Paperback. An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed, the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siècle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural fragmentation and dissolution with characteristic verve ... Read more
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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349139098
SKU
V9780349139098
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About Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was 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. His previous books include The Age of Extremes, The AGe of Revolution and The Age of Empire. He died at ... Read more
Reviews for Fractured Times
Eric Hobsbawm wrote with extraordinary wit, grace and power, qualities evident in this posthumously published collection
Richard J Evans
Guardian
Reveals on every page [Hobsbawm's] characteristic boldness of interpretation, astonishing range and versatility
Fractured Times
Richard J Evans
Guardian
Reveals on every page [Hobsbawm's] characteristic boldness of interpretation, astonishing range and versatility
Fractured Times