a| 0718133072

a| BE-GnUNI

a| D421 b| .H583 1994

a| Hobsbawm, E. J. q| (Eric John), d| 1917-2012 0| (viaf)9847789

a| Age of extremes : b| the short twentieth century 1914-1991 / c| Eric Hobsbawm.

a| 9th impr.

a| London : b| Joseph, c| 1995.

a| XII, 627 p.

a| Hobsbawm has written a history based on his wide personal experience - he was born in the year of the Russian revolution and was in Berlin when Hitler was appointed Chancellor - and from the point of view of a believer in reason, science and the potential improvement of the human situation.

a| Part 1 The age of catastrophe: total wars; the world revolution; into the economic abyss; the fall of liberalism; against the common enemy - the 1930s and 1940s; the arts 1914-45; the end of empires. Part 2 The golden age: the Cold War; the golden years; social revolution; cultural revolution; the Third World; real socialism. Part 3 The landslide: the crisis decades; the Third World and revolution; the fall of socialism; the avant-garde dies; sorcerers and apprentices - science; a millennium dies.

a| 20ste eeuw.

a| History, Modern y| 20th century. 2| lcsh

m| BOOK b| GUISL c| GUISL j| GUISL.VDB 920.32 p| 853147-10 7| [bevat boekbespreking uit Ned. Dagblad, 10 juni 1995] f| 04 F| NO LOAN/open shelves

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