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	The Age of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawm) - book review
		Age of Extremes is broadly chronological, but does not offer a narrative of events, instead tackling broad themes in nineteen largely self-contained chapters.
		Age of Extremes also includes a really excellent 32 page selection of fl and white photographs, which would make a nice photo-essay in its own right.
		Hobsbawm's own area of specialisation is the nineteenth century and Age of Extremes is based almost entirely on secondary sources, the limitations of which are occasionally visible.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Age_Extremes.html (293 words)

	Age of Extremes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994.
		In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state communism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an equally skeptical take on the progress of the arts and changes in society in the latter half of the twentieth century.
		As in sport, the human activity in which youth is supreme, and which now defined the ambitions of more human beings than any other, life clearly went downhill after the age of thirty...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Age_of_Extremes (1692 words)

	Definitions Country Codes geographic.org Courty Profiles - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
		This indicator is significantly affected by age distribution, and most countries will eventually show a rise in the overall death rate, in spite of continued decline in mortality at all ages, as declining fertility results in an aging population.
		Manpower reaching military service age annually: This entry gives the number of draft-age males and females entering the military manpower pool in any given year and is a measure of the availability of draft-age young adults.
		Median age: This entry is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older.
	www.theodora.com /wfb/wfb2000/definitions.html (12538 words)

	NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY
		The New Age is in fact a free-flowing spiritual movement; a network of believers and practitioners who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices, which they add on to whichever formal religion that they follow.
		New Age teachings became popular during the 1970's as a reaction against what some perceived as the failure of Christianity and the failure of Secular Humanism to provide spiritual and ethical guidance for the future.
		Extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory and a strong desire to live instinctively, these children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness who have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives and create one land, one globe and one species.
	www.religioustolerance.org /newage.htm (2528 words)

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		The end of the Age of Catastrophe was accompanied by a massive decolonization movement, which also resulted from the economic slump of the great depression and wide-spread redrawing of the geographical map that followed the Second World War.
		The two most important aspects of this age of relative prosperity were the death of the peasantry and the resulting rise of urbanization.
		Its eventual failure in 1989—far from heralding a new age of prosperity and “the end of history”—ushered in another era of instability and nationalist movements.
	vi.uh.edu /pages/buzzmat/bookreviews/KyleHobsbawm.doc (1207 words)

	Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes
		This is the proper central theme of twentieth century history: the pace of economic transformation--its causes, its implications for productivity, for the structure of employment, for the use of education, for the value of capital, for society and social order, for cultural events, for politics.
		For if there was ever an age in which changes in the material conditions by which humans produce and reproduce the necessities and conveniences of their life dominate every other sphere of human activity, it is the twentieth century.
		Thus the past fifty years in the industrial, democratic west marks one of the few eras in history in which the distribution of wealth and economic power is to a degree the result of political choice, instead of the distribution of economic power largely determining political organization.
	econ161.berkeley.edu /Econ_Articles/hobsbawmsageofextremes.html (5282 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Age of Empire, 1875-1914: Books: E.J. Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire is one of the books which forms a four volume history of the world over the two centuries since the French Revolution: The Age of Revolution (1789-1848), The Age of Capital (1848-75), The Age of Empire (1875-1914), and The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (1914-91).
		Hobsbawm himself delineates in the preface that The Age of Empire is a "history of different states, of politics, of the economy, of culture or whatever" (Preface: xi).
		Putting Hobsbawm's political persuasion aside, The Age of Empire, despite being Marxist in character, provides both the Marxist and non-Marxist reader with a detailed and somewhat accurate description of the transformations that occurred, even if the origins and reasons for them are riddled with ambiguities and open to debate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Age-Empire-1875-1914-E-J-Hobsbawm/dp/0349105987 (1438 words)

	Amazon.fr : Age of Extremes: Livres en anglais: E.J. Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amazon.fr : Age of Extremes: Livres en anglais: E.J. Hobsbawm
		Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the 20th century.
		Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of this most troubled century, and makes challenging predictions for the next.
	www.amazon.fr /Age-Extremes-E-J-Hobsbawm/dp/0349106711 (339 words)

	A 20th-Century Retrospective: Looking Back at the Age of Extremes
		In this century alone we have passed through the age of the horse and carriage, the automobile and the airplane, and entered the space age in which man has actually walked on the moon.
		We have progressed through the age of technology to the information age and now the digital age, which staggers us with its potential.
		The result is that, at the turn of the millennium, we stand poised on the threshold of a very different age.
	vision.org /visionmedia/article.aspx?id=694 (3582 words)

	NPR : A History Both Global and Personal
		NPR discussed The Age of Extremes with Michael Kazin, the author most recently of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.
		Age of Extremes ends with the judgment, phrased in the idioms of classical Marxism and a frustrated "bourgeois" idealism: "The forces generated by the techno-scientific economy are now great enough to destroy the environment...
		Some scholars would object that "the Middle Ages" is not a meaningful concept to apply to the history of any country outside West and Central Europe.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5739209 (1763 words)

	Reviews in History: The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991
		For Hobsbawm the Age of Extremes follows those of Revolution, Capitalism and Empire on which he has already written at length and with great distinction.
		This age is further subdivided into `The Age of Catastrophe' (1914-50), `The Golden Age' (1950-75), and `The Landslide' (1975 to 1991 and beyond).
		He assumes that capitalism is such an unruly force that it is inherently extremist if allowed to operate unchecked, and this is what he fears has now been allowed to happen as a result of the failure of socialism to sustain itself and develop as a credible model.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/eric.html (1629 words)

	Age Of Extremes defies French censors, by Eric Hobsbawm
		Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 was published in Great Britain in 1994 and in the United States shortly after.
		It asks to be judged on its merits as a comprehensive history of the 20th century (and the final volume of a series, begun many years ago, which together constitutes a history of the world since the late 18th century Age of Revolution).
		The publication of a French translation of Age of Extremes now make it possible to discover whether reviewers and the intelligent reading public in France are really as different from those of other countries as Pierre Nora’s unflattering assessment of the intellectual state of France suggests.
	mondediplo.com /1999/12/05hobsbawm?var_recherche=ca... (1498 words)

	Books In Review: The Age of Extremes
		The Age of Extremes forms a sequel to that trilogy, charting the course of what Hobsbawm has labeled the "short twentieth century" extending from the outbreak of World War I (and the ensuing demise of Europe) through the end of the Cold War-a history, not incidentally, of Hobsbawm's own time.
		The Age of Extremes can best be understood as a testimonial to that left, Hobsbawm's effort to explain how such a worthy enterprise has now ended in abject and humiliating failure, its ideals discredited, its vast pretensions demolished.
		Were The Age of Extremes merely an apology for the left, it would be of limited interest.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9511/reviews/bacevich.html (920 words)

	Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes
		This is the proper central theme of twentieth century history: the pace of economic transformation--its causes, its implications for productivity, for the structure of employment, for the use of education, for the value of capital, for society and social order, for cultural events, for politics.
		For if there was ever an age in which changes in the material conditions by which humans produce and reproduce the necessities and conveniences of their life dominate every other sphere of human activity, it is the twentieth century.
		Thus the past fifty years in the industrial, democratic west marks one of the few eras in history in which the distribution of wealth and economic power is to a degree the result of political choice, instead of the distribution of economic power largely determining political organization.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /Econ_Articles/hobsbawmsageofextremes.html (5282 words)

	Age of Extremes » Lesen » andreas-kalt.de
		Jahrhundert als ein Zeitalter der Extreme, in dem die bis dato furchtbarsten Kriege geführt wurden, die tiefgreifendsten weltpolitischen Veränderungen stattfanden, die unglaublichsten wissenschaftlichen Errungenschaften erzielt wurden.
		Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm’s personal vision of the twentieth century.
		In addition to The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and The Age of Empire his books include Primitive Rebels, Labouring Men and Words of Labour, Industry and Empire and Bandits.
	www.andreas-kalt.de /lesen/age-extremes (307 words)

	Ron Milam
		Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
		Professor Hobsbawm’s previous works include the three “Ages” – Revolution, Capital, and Empire, but this is his first comprehensive work which attempts to chronicle history as an observer, rather than as a scholar.
		He describes the period from 1914 to post World War II as the Age of Catastrophe, and documents the various events leading up to both wars, as well as discussing the roles of the various participating belligerents.
	vi.uh.edu /pages/buzzmat/Hobsbawm.htm (960 words)

	The Blind Assassin
		It also includes criticisms not only of her work in prose and fiction, but poetry as well; on many of the pages, quatrains from numerous poems are printed out, either as part of the paragraph or set out on its own.
		The Age of Extremes is a history book that described events from 1914 up to 1991.
		The Age of Extremes is brought into the research paper in order to show what occurred during the time of The Blind Assassin, so when the research is done on the novel, they will see what happened during 1930-1947.
	www.prism.gatech.edu /~derbentrau3/bibilo.html (1416 words)

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		He is concerned to explain the political and cultural events in this "age of extremes," taking into account the motives and world-views of the actors.
		Exhausted and disheartened by the Age of Extremes, he is willing to leave the imagining of solutions to others and be satisfied with having made sense of the massive social changes of his own time.
		Many of the developments described by Hobsbawm, the age of disaster, the age of golden and the age of crisis, are explained and clarified by the broader comparative frame that Arrighi employs.
	www.irows.ucr.edu /cd/bookrevs/arrihob.txt (3079 words)

	Monthly Review July-August 1995 Justin Rosenberg
		Before turning to The Age of Extremes, it may help to recall the approach used by Hobsbawm in his celebrated trilogy on the "long nineteenth century," to which the present book forms the successor volume.
		Since the principal expression in the West of this renewed economic turbulence was the failure of Keynesian state policies to sustain stable growth, the period witnessed a sharp electoral retreat of social democracy.
		For this has been an age of world wars, of ideological conflicts superimposed on a global state-system, of booms and slumps that were worldwide in their impact, and of (ecological and political) challenges which now confront the whole of humanity.
	www.monthlyreview.org /795rosen.htm (5762 words)

	Economics of infection at the extremes of age.
		Economics of infection at the extremes of age.
		People are more vulnerable to infection at the extremes of age for a variety of reasons, the most important being that they are more likely to be in hospital in a crowded ward environment and to be at risk from hospital acquired infection.
		An economic evaluation of infection at the extremes of age should include an assessment of need made in terms of the capacity of patients to benefit from investigation or treatment.
	www.medscape.com /medline/abstract/7844069 (257 words)

	Intro Page
		As Eric Hobsbawn remarks ("Age of Extremes" 1994), we are surrounded by both the sites and the witnesses of 20th century catastrophe.
		In an age of nuclear weapons and 'high-tech' war, other key issues have not disappeared.
		Indeed, Winter argues a continuity from the slaughter of 1914-1918, to the Holocaust and Nuclearism, and the continuing potential of genocidal weapons.
	people.colgate.edu /kblock/intro_page.htm (399 words)

	Shop-Corner MiniStore - The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The "Age of Catastrophe" (1914-47), marked by two world wars, the crumbling of colonial empires, the spread of communism and the near-breakdown of the capitalist system, ended only after the liberal West and the Soviet Union forged a temporary, bizarre alliance to defeat Hitler.
		Rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. dominated the ensuing "Golden Age" (1947-73), yet Hobsbawm (emeritus professor at the University of London and professor of politics at Manhattan's New School for Social Research) argues that despite Cold War rhetoric, the superpowers essentially accepted the division of the world and sought long-term peaceful coexistence.
		The Golden Age's real significance, he maintains, lies in explosive growth of the world economy, technological revolution and, for most of the globe, a social revolution marked by death of the peasantry, mass urbanization, the spread of literacy and the primacy of individualism over traditional constraints.
	astore.amazon.de /shop-corner-21/detail/0679730052 (1161 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991: Books: E.J. Hobsbawm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the 20th century.
		The book argues a strong case, the central thesis being that the events of the twentieth century are without precedent in their scope and speed, and that their momentum cannot last for the sake of humanity.
		In "The Age of Extremes", Hobsbawm's explains us his idea that the 20th century began in 1914 (with the outbreak of World WarI), and ended in 1991 (with the collapse of the USSR).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349106711/thebookdeposi-21 (1544 words)

	The Age Of Arthur Summary
		John Morris`s book The Age of Arthur, fills in the other 99.999% of what we know of the period and is a must for those who have an interest in the realities of the early Dark Age.
		The Age of Arthur is a popular phrase used to cover the post Roman period of Britain between the leaving of the legions and the dominance of the Anglo-Saxon settlers.
		It is a period that has been long misinterperated, mainly due to books and films inventing their own historicaly inaccurate portrayal of the times, but this work will set the record straight.
	www.shvoong.com /f/books/history/89634-age-arthur (851 words)

	Late Middle Ages
		The Middle Ages was also a period when the persisting legacy of knights, serfs, and castles coexisted with the cannons and muskets newly made possible by gunpowder.
		It was a period when Scholastic theologians continued to question the nature of God and the salvation of humanity, while this new breed of Humanists urged a focus on humanity itself.
		The Black Death, which claimed what some historians now believe to be fully half of Europe's population in its first four-year visit (there were others) and left in its wake not only death and grief but widespread social and economic complications.
	www.teach12.com /ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=8296&pc=HomePageFeature (1131 words)

	Cloggie :: Booklog :: Age of Extremes
		Hence, the "Age of Extremes"; in Hobsbawm's view, the 20th century went from catastrophe to utopia and ended in crisis.
		His "Golden Age" is the age in which the Soviet Union and the West seemed to grow towards each other, with the thriumph of social democracy in the west and a more humane communism in the USSR.
		It is significant that Hobsbawm's golden age and the best he seems to be able to imagine could be achieved, still fall so far short of the ideals of communism.
	www.cloggie.org /books/age-of-extremes.html (654 words)

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