This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.

我们在这里把1789年的法国大革命和同时期发生的（英国）工业革命称为“双元革命”（dualrevolution），本书所追溯的1789－1848年的世界变革，正是从“双元革命”这一意义上着眼。因此，严格地说，本书所陈述的历史既不是一部欧洲史，也不是一部世界史。我在书中对某一国家的陈述（尽管常常显得粗略），是从它在这一时期所感受到的双元革命影响来着眼，那些在这一时期受双元革命影响微不足道的国家，我就略而不谈。因此，读者在书中会发现关于埃及的某些论述，而找不到对日本的评说，对爱尔兰的阐述多于保加利亚，谈拉丁美洲多于非洲。自然，这并不意味着本书所忽略的国家和人民，他们的历史要比本书所谈论的那些国家和人民的历史有所逊色，或者较不重要。本书之所以把视角放在欧洲，更确切地说是放在法、英，那是因为在这个时期，世界或至少是世界上大部分地区的基础转变是发生在欧洲，确切...(展开全部)

For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power—and their heads—were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency, whether real or merely p...(展开全部)

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleons defeat at Waterloo in 1815but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution, and they would not be ...(展开全部)

A torrent of revolutions ripped through Europe in the year 1848. The storm all but swept away the conservative order that had held sway since the fall of Napoleon in 1815. Over the course of the spring and summer, crowds of working-class radicals and middle-class liberals in Paris, Milan, Venice, Naples, Palermo, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, Munich, and Berlin toppled th...(展开全部)

In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming political liberties and national freedom. The conservative order which had held sway since the fall of Napoleon in 1815 crumbled beneath the revolutionary assault. This book narrates the b...(展开全部)

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleons defeat at Waterloo in 1815but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution, and they would not be ...(展开全部)

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.

贫困，在近代以前一直被认为是一个关乎个人道德和劳动能力的问题。人们认为，穷人的贫困是因其自身好吃懒做或能力低下造成的，还通常将贫困和乞丐、流民联系起来，认为这是个人懒惰、堕落与不信神的结果。但1789年法国大革命爆发后，人们对贫困问题的理解出现了重大的断裂。此后，人们不再把贫困视为个体层面的现象，而更多地将之与双元革命（大革命与工业革命）催生的现代社会制度相连。于是，贫困成为一个社会问题，成为整个社会都需要承担的重要义务。本书依据翔实的史料，对这一时段中法国对现代社会中的贫困问题的诊断，以及提出各种各样的解决方案进行了梳理，找到了治理贫困的关键所在。 与此同时，作者还对法国在治理贫困时如何从自由经济走向社会经济，并拥抱社会政策进行了全面论述，对19世纪上半叶法国各派别尤其是激进派围绕贫困问题的思想斗争及其趋势，作了了一幅全景式的，但又不失深刻的勾勒。...(展开全部)