THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of the troubled twentieth century and makes challenging predicitions for the future.

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. Includes 32 pages of photos.

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. Includes 32 pages of photos.

二十世紀，為人類興起了所能想像的最大希望，但同時也摧毀了所有幻望和理想的極端年代。 出生於一次大戰期間的北非埃及，在戰後凋敝的德奧兩國度過青少年，因納粹興起而避居英倫，足跡遍及南歐、拉丁美洲，親見希特勒就職、卡斯楚講演，終身以猶太知識自居，以馬克思主義揭櫫的理想自期，以「人民的史家」享譽國際的世界史大師－霍布斯邦，以其專業史家的精闢洞見，和身為二十世紀積極參與者的熱情關懷，在二千年即將告終的今日，為我們記憶了這個我們所由來的世紀。從大災難的一九一四，到黃金的六０年代，乃至天崩地裂的一九九一。 極端的年代－一部短促二十世絕的歷史，一部宏觀史家走過的一生，一個你我都曾或長或短、或深或淺生活於其中的世界的故事。

A master historian's account of the middle-class world of our grandparents and how its sudden collapse in World War I laid the basis for the catastrophes of the 20th century. 54 photos, maps, charts.

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, 'The Age of Empire' covers the era of Western imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War I - and shaped modern society.

The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, 'The Age of Empire' covers the era of Western imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War I - and shaped modern society.

A master historian's account of the middle-class world of our grandparents and how its sudden collapse in World War I laid the basis for the catastrophes of the 20th century. 54 photos, maps, charts.

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