The Age of Capital

1848-1875

De: Eric Hobsbawm

Narrado por: Hugh Kermode

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes an intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.

Although it pulses with great events - failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression - The Age of Capital is most outstanding for its analysis of the trends that created the new order.

With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm identifies this epoch's winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science, and religion.

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More Marxism more better

I loved the consistent and accurate analysis of class relations and the predatory nature of capitalists.

Brilliant

Fascinating read. Extremely well written and the narration by Hugh Kermode really makes it a pleasure to listen to. Highly recommend all of Hobsbawms work

Comprehensive and incisive overview of the period of bourgeois triumph

Eric Hobsbawm’s second installment in the long 19th century trilogy takes aim at the period from the failed revolutions of 1848 to the economic crisis of the 1870s. This transitional period saw the simultaneous end to liberalism as a revolutionary force and its triumph as an economic and social system, as the egalitarian aspect yielded to the rule of capital and the dogmas of economic law.

Hobsbawm traces the resolution of old and the emergence of new contradictions during liberal bourgeoisie’s era of supreme self-confidence and domination. Hobsbawm’s comprehensive and incisive analysis of a crucial period make this volume required reading for anyone seeking to understand the emergence of the modern world.