Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

by Eric J. Hobsbawm

Book Overview

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de si cle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595589775
• ISBN13: 9781595589774
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"