The New Century

Eric J.Hobsbawm with Antonio Polito

ISBN 10: 0316854298 / ISBN 13: 9780316854290

Editore: Little Brown, Great Britain, 2000

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THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back over the last decade to learn something of the new era, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing. He goes on to analyse the crisis of the multi-ethnic state and shows the distortions of history involved in the creation of its myths. He expresses his anxiety over the system of international relations between states that have so far ruled by colonialism and nuclear terror. Hobsbawm then assesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment. Published this year in dozens of countries throughout the world, THE NEW CENTURY is a concise summary of the thinking of one of the pre-eminent historians,(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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• Titolo: The New Century
• Editore: Little Brown, Great Britain
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0316854298
• ISBN 13: 9780316854290
• Rilegatura: SofCover
• Edizione: First Paperback Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Paperback
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Riassunto

In this volume, Eric Hobsbawn continues his analysis of the 20th century, asking questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back on the 1990s to learn something of the new era, he finds the distinctions between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing. He goes on to analyze the crisis of the multi-ethnic state and shows the distortions of history involved in the creation of its myths. He expresses his anxiety over the system of international relations between states that have so far ruled by colonialism and nuclear terror. Hobsbawn then asssesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment.

Informazioni sull?autore

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London, and Cambridge. A fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York.