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.

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.

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。

海因里希·奥古斯特·温克勒，外文名Heinrich August Winkler，出生于1938年。德国历史学家，联邦大十字勋章获得者。出版著作有《魏玛共和国的工人与工人运动》《通往西方的漫长道路》等。

海因里希·奥古斯特·温克勒，外文名Heinrich August Winkler，出生于1938年。德国历史学家，联邦大十字勋章获得者。出版著作有《魏玛共和国的工人与工人运动》《通往西方的漫长道路》等。

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into ...(展开全部)

R.R. 帕尔默（R.R.Palmer，1909—2002），美国著名历史学家，1934 年获康奈尔大学博士学位，1936—1977年间先后执教于普林斯顿大学、华盛顿大学和耶鲁大学。作为法国大革命研究权威，以及美法两国革命比较研究的先驱，帕尔默曾先后担任美国法国史研究协会主席（1961），美国历史学会主席（1970），同时也是美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学学院的活跃成员，并被欧美多所大学授予荣誉学位。1990 年，帕尔默被意大利林琴科学院授予费尔特里内利奖。本书是帕尔默的代表作，此外他还著有《18 世纪法国的天主教徒和不信教者》（1939），《民主革命的年代：美国与欧洲的政治史》（1959）等。 乔• 科尔顿（Joel Colton），哥伦比亚大学哲学博士，1950—1989 年任教于杜克大学历史系，曾任洛克菲勒人文科学奖学金与研究项目主席，美国艺术与...(展开全部)