Age of extremes : the short twentieth century, 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Viking Penguin, 1995.Description: xii, 627 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780349106717 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-614) and index.
The century : a bird's eye view -- Part one : the age of catastrophe. The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts, 1914-45 -- End of empires -- Part two : the golden age. Cold war -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- "Real socialism" -- Part three : the landslide. The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies : the art after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices : the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.
An overview of the history of the twentieth century reviews the legacy of two world wars, the Depression, the end of colonialism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, and the era's technological and scientific advances.
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