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The Age of Revolution, 1789�1848
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Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume.
It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its writing, but in its focus and biases. For all his Marxism, Hobsbawm was very much a bourgeois Brit.
There is also the business of Hobsbawm's defense of Stalinism. This is a very interesting clip - an interview with Michael Ignatieff:
To rate it now is to give it 4-stars.
(Hard to imagine a better, more thoughtful, more thoroughly digested and original survey of a period which I wanted and needed to know much more about.)
It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its writing, but in its focus and biases. For all his Marxism, Hobsbawm was very much a bourgeois Brit.
There is also the business of Hobsbawm's defense of Stalinism. This is a very interesting clip - an interview with Michael Ignatieff:
To rate it now is to give it 4-stars.
(Hard to imagine a better, more thoughtful, more thoroughly digested and original survey of a period which I wanted and needed to know much more about.)
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February 9, 2011
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Started Reading
February 9, 2011
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February 9, 2011
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19th-century
February 11, 2011
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7.58%
"The opening chapter is a bit difficult and disjointed - though certainly full of insights."
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27
February 14, 2011
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11.8%
"Still slow... but much clearer. His description of the way in which Britain managed to deindustrialize India (the traditional source of textile imports into Europe) and turning it into a market for British textiles... is fascinating -- especially given the recent deindustrialization of the U.S. vis-a-vis China and emerging Asia."
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42
February 21, 2011
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25.84%
"The deeper I push into this book, the more its merits become apparent to me. Of course, it may simply be a function of the right book for the right level of ignorance."
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92
March 2, 2011
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56.18%
"Each brief chapter is, in fact, a dense, provocative, well thought out meditation on some topic - social, economic, political, etc. Quite an achievement, this book..."
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200
April 5, 2013
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7.3%
"I read this almost exactly two years ago and felt then that I'd need to reread it, since my knowledge of the period was so poor. So I've started to reread this -- it should go much quicker this time, and hopefully more of it will stick."
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26
January 10, 2014
– Shelved as:
french-revolution-ancien-regime
July 4, 2016
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Finished Reading
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Feb 20, 2011 09:27PM
"The Dantons of history are always defeated by the Robespierres (or by those who pretend to behave like Robespierres) because hard narrow dedication can succeed where Bohemianism cannot."
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