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A 6 page book review of E.J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Capitalism 1848-1875 (1975, Scribner), which offers the reader a comprehensive snapshot of the world during this period. The text is scholarly, and meticulously researched with extensive notation of sources. Yet, Hobsbawm clear writing style, which eschews the use of jargon and multiple references to historical tomes, is easily comprehended by all readers. This text can benefit the casual reader, students, and Hobsbawm's fellow historians. No additional sources cited.
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researched with extensive notation of sources. Yet, Hobsbawm clear writing style, which eschews the use of jargon and multiple references to historical tomes, is easily comprehended by all readers. In
fact, Hobsbawm writes in his preface that this text is "deliberately addressed to the non-expert reader" (xiii). Examination of this text, its structure and content, demonstrates that it is an
insightful, well-written introduction to his period of history that can benefit the casual reader, students, and Hobsbawms fellow historians. Hobsbawms introduction sets the stage for the text, as it
gives some necessary background information, presenting an overview of the social, political and economic climate of the times. This establishes the major theme of the decades after 1848, which witnessed
the "global triumph of capitalism" (Hobsbawm 1). Rather than relate the events of the period in strict chronological order, Hobsbawm covers this immense and diverse topic well by focusing on
themes. The first section of the book focuses on the 1848 revolutions, which he describes as a "prelude" to the following section which describes the main developments of the period
(Hobsbawm xiii). The third section of the text presents a series of "cross-sections" that describe the "economy, society and culture of the third quarter of the nineteenth century" (Hobsbawm xiv)(All
subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this relates the extraordinary events that occurred in 1848, a
year that saw numerous political revolutions, as well as the publication of Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto. In France, the Republic was instituted on February 24, 1848 and by March
2, the revolutionary spirit had swept to Germany, by March 6 Bavaria (10). While these revolutions were largely of short duration, Hobsbawm asserts that they highly influenced the subsequent decades
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