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The Age Of Capital - 1848-1875 (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Age Of Capital - 1848-1875 (Paperback, Reissue)
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Hobsbawm's classic account of Europe in the third quarter of the
19th century. Its Marxist thrust provides for a passionate but
always erudite and searching exploration of the great epoch of
industrial capitalism with the enormous riches that it created for
some and the deprivation bestowed upon others. It forms part of
what is now a four-volume panorama covering the period from the
French Revolution to the present day, but each volume stands alone
and this is one of the finest. (Kirkus UK)
The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875,
a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the
world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political
vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of
capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848.
It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth
rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying
everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it
in the dearest. An economy so based, and therefore nestling
naturally on the sound foundations of a bourgoisie composed of
those whom energy, merit and intelligence had raised to their
position and kept there, would - it was believed - not only create
a world of suitably distributed material plenty but of ever-growing
enlightenment, reason and human opportunity, an advance of the
sciences and the arts, in brief a world of continuous and
accelerating material and moral progress.
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