The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm
that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime
spent studying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hobsbawm's
vision is important - he was a lifelong Marxist whose view of
history was shaped by a fascination with social and economic
history, yet who privileged evidence over political theory - but
the real power of these works, and especially The Age of
Revolution, emanates from the wide range of the author's reading
and his mastery of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. It is
this skill that allows Hobsbawm to combine insights drawn from
decades of reading into an original thesis that sees the crucial
"long 19th century" as a period shaped by "dual revolution" - the
twin impacts of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the
French Revolution on the continent. Hobsbawm supplemented his
evaluative excellence with a firm grasp of reasoning, crafting a
volume that contains brilliant, clearly-structured arguments which
explain complicated ideas via well-chosen examples in ways that
make his work accessible to intelligent general readers and
scholars alike.
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