Hobsbawm on latin america, 2016, little, brown, isbn. Eric hobsbawm on his 94th birthday, at the hay festival in 2011. It occurred, inevitably and temporarily, in the form of a capitalist economy and society, and it was also, perhaps, inevitable that it should occur in the form of a single liberal world economy, depending for a time on a single leading pioneer country. From his early books on the industrial revolution and european empires, to his magisterial 1995 study of the short twentieth century, the age of extremes, hobsbawm has become known as one of the finest practitioners of the craft of writing history. He is considered one of the worlds bestknown historians. Resumen industria e imperio hobsbawn revolucion industrial.
This is an introductory section, summarising the most important points of this work in one 10minute read. In the early hours of 1 october 2012, hobsbawm died at the royal free. Create marketing content that resonates with prezi video. Presencia del proletariado rapida extension, tocqueville. He describes and accounts for britains rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world. Pdf on dec 14, 2015, osvaldo coggiola and others published revolucion. The industrial revolution marks the most fundamental transformation of human life in the history of the world. Macats analyses are definitive studies of the most important books and. Pdf an analysis of eric hobsbawms age of revolution. Rather than treating the two major events in isolation, he argued that the revolutions in france and in britain may have been different.