The Age of Revolution
1789-1848
ERIC HOBSBAWM
VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. New York
Copyright © 1962 by E.J. Hobsbawm
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Weidenfeld Sc Nicolson, London, in 1962.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hobsbawm, E.J. (EricJ.), 1917-
The Age of Revolution, 1789-18 98 / Eric Hobsbawm.—1 st Vin tage Books ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-679-77253-7
1. Europe—History—1789—1900. 2. Industrial revolution.
I. Title.
D299.H6 1996 940.г'7—dc20 96-7765 CIP
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CONTENTS
- MAPS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- THE WORLD IN THE 1780s
- VI
- THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- IV
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- IV
- WAR
- IV
- PEACE
- REVOLUTIONS
- V
- NATIONALISM
- II
- TOWARDS AN INDUSTRIAL WORLD
- THE CAREER OPEN TO TALENT
- THE LABOURING POOR
- V
- IDEOLOGY: SECULAR
- THE ARTS
- V
- SCIENCE
- V
- CONCLUSION: TOWARDS 1848
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX