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Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991/ Eric Hobsbawm

By: Hobsbawm, EricMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Abacus, 2009Description: xii, 627 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780349106717Subject(s): Modern HistoryDDC classification: 909

Contents:

The century : a bird's eye view -- Part one : the age of catastrophe. The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- Against the common enemy -- The arts, 1914-45 -- End of empires -- Part two : the golden age. Cold war -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- "Real socialism" -- Part three : the landslide. The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies : the art after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices : the natural sciences -- Towards the millennium.

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	909 HOB/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P07569

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The century : a bird's eye view --
Part one : the age of catastrophe. The age of total war --
The world revolution --
Into the economic abyss --
The fall of liberalism --
Against the common enemy --
The arts, 1914-45 --
End of empires --
Part two : the golden age. Cold war --
The golden years --
The social revolution 1945-1990 --
Cultural revolution --
The third world --
"Real socialism" --
Part three : the landslide. The crisis decades --
Third world and revolution --
End of socialism --
The avant-garde dies : the art after 1950 --
Sorcerers and apprentices : the natural sciences --
Towards the millennium.

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