Advantages: Great book on the 19th century Disadvantages: It is sheer history you will find here
...will help you understand the fundamentals of the evolution that has resulted in the world we are living in. How the industrial revolution created a surplus of both product and capital that made it necessary for Western countries to search for new markets in Africa and Asia, where they could place their products and at the same time obtain raw material. This is how the Age of the Empire and the Capital started. And it all gave way to an international ... ...with the First World War.
From then on you should read the Age of Extremes where history is analyzed to the end of the 20th century.
All the three books are written - as it has already been said -very wittedly. Hobsbawn mixes all sorts of data on population, economics or politics, with anecdotes that make you smile and stick to a serious book on history.
However, do not think that because it is wittedly written, it is less serious. You will find ...
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Advantages: brilliant! Disadvantages: wanted to know more.
...been interested in history and the Tudor period is my favourite so this book really appealed to me. The reviews on the back cover claimed that the book was an entertaining account of Henry V11’s complicated domestic history, full of interesting detail. It was the promise of interesting detail taken from reliable sources, whi
