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909.82 TOU Cosmopolis : the hidden agenda of modernity | 909.82 TOU Cosmopolis : the hidden agenda of modernity | 909.820222 BER Century : one hundred years of human progress, regression, suffering and hope | 909.82092 HOB Interesting times : a twentieth-century life | 909.825 BAU Screened out | 909.829 GUE End of the nation-state | 909.829 HUN Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He has personally witnessed some of the critical events of our century, from Hitler's rise to power in Berlin to the fall of the Berlin wall. Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for 85 years, and has been constantly committed to understanding the "interesting times" (as the Chinese curse puts it) through which he has lived. His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jew's account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently, and how it became the world we now live in.
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