# The Age of Extremes

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- Book: [The Age of Extremes](https://www.bookquiver.com/eric-hobsbawm/the-age-of-extremes) ([The Age of Extremes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eric-hobsbawm/the-age-of-extremes.md))
- Authors: [Eric Hobsbawm](https://www.bookquiver.com/eric-hobsbawm)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-005-7
- Pages: 672
- Published: 1996-02-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled...