New century
Material type: TextPublication details: Britain Abacus 2000Description: 176 pISBN: 9780349113364Subject(s): Twenty-first century civilization -modernDDC classification: 909.825 Summary: Eric Hobsbawm's AGE OF EXTREMES was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back over the last decade to learn something of the new era, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing. He goes on to analyse the crisis of the multi-ethnic state and shows the distortions of history involved in the creation of its myths. He expresses his anxiety over the system of international relations between states that have so far ruled by colonialism and nuclear terror. Hobsbawm then assesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment. Published this year in dozens of countries throughout the world, THE NEW CENTURY is a concise summary of the thinking of one of the pre-eminent historians.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 909.825 HOB/N (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 52136 |
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909.82 TWE The Penguin book of twentieth-century speeches | 909.822 ZIE/B Between the wars, 1919-1939 | 909.824 CRO/A Aftermath: the makers of the postwar world | 909.825 HOB/N New century | 909.829 QUI/M A Macat analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order | 909.83 EXP Exploring emergent global thresholds : towards 2030 | 909.83 STA Statesman's yearbook 2019 |
Eric Hobsbawm's AGE OF EXTREMES was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions about our inheritance from the century of conflict and its meanings for the years to come. Looking back over the last decade to learn something of the new era, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts and between state of war and state of peace disappearing. He goes on to analyse the crisis of the multi-ethnic state and shows the distortions of history involved in the creation of its myths. He expresses his anxiety over the system of international relations between states that have so far ruled by colonialism and nuclear terror. Hobsbawm then assesses the impact that a popular global culture has had on every aspect of life, from happiness and social hierarchy to nutrition and the environment. Published this year in dozens of countries throughout the world, THE NEW CENTURY is a concise summary of the thinking of one of the pre-eminent historians.
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