The age of extremes a history of the world, 1914-1991
Eric Hobsbawm
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York Vintage Books [1996]
- xii, 627 p. ill. 21 cm
Originally published: London : M. Joseph, 1994. Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-614).
The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts 1914-1945 -- End of empires -- Cold War -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- RÌ€eal socialism' -- The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies - the arts after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices - the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.