The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848

Hobsbawm reads sixty years of European history through a 'dual revolution', the French political one and the British industrial one, and follows them into land, labour, science, religion and the arts. The synthesis is confident and lucid, compressing a vast literature into one argument, and it opened his series on the long nineteenth century. Its framework is firm enough that readers should notice where it guides the evidence.

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