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  <title><![CDATA[Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991]]></title>
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  <default-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 inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. Includes 32 pages of photos.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1994</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eric Hobsbawm]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The business of historians, Hobsbawm reminds us, is to remember what others forget, a task carrying much more weight in a world where contemporary experience is persistently present and lacking any organic relation (goodreads, hello?) to the public past of our times.      <br/><br/>This book, as p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57953107">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 29 16:29:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 30 11:02:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with a ton of hope: I heard this guy was a british national treasure and one of the most famous living historians.  But the only thing I took from the book was his (I think accurate) theory that the 20th century was &quot;short&quot; and could be described as the period between the start...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76158216">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 14:32:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book extremely difficult to read.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Hobsbawm" title=" Hobsbawm"> Hobsbawm</a> was born in Egypt to Viennese parents who spoke English in the home, and his syntax seems to have been permanently ruined by the experience.  For example, what are we to make of this sentance?  <em>For if divorce, illegitimate, births and the ris...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29876260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not quite done with it yet (150 or so pages left) so take my review with a grain of salt. Mr. Hobsbawm's analysis of the &quot;Short Twentieth Century&quot; does, I think, bear up. At no point in the book does he fail to mention his own biases or does he take a particular side. Mr. Hobsbawm, how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1715529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47910689">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 01 13:06:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 05:16:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the chapters unfurl; the scope of this book is painfully good to explore. even when hobsbawn zeroes in on case studies, he chases down each detail so thoroughly that the causes and effects branch out to include the entire planet. i've only been reading this out of its series of four, but i'm going t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47910689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68104190">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great appendix to Hobsbawm's history of the long nineteenth century (French Revolution to WWI), and a pretty decent place to start for 20th century history I would say. No complaints. And i'm a real complainer. ]]></body>
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    <review id="62604314">
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    <body><![CDATA[عصر نهایت ها اریک هابسبام تاریخ جهان 1914 تا 1991 ترجمه‌ حسن مرتضوی]]></body>
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    <review id="47694206">
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    <body><![CDATA[historoical stuff....quite good analysis with subjective notion of Mr. Hobsbawm]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good social examination of the history of the world since WWI.]]></body>
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    <review id="28664083">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was fascinating if somewhat a difficult read.  My head's swimming, and it's hard to discern overall themes on the first pass, but it's a good, and very interesting approach, to the history of the period from 1914-1994.   Hobsbawm attempts to explain the why of the events in this Short Twentieth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28664083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33711722">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good to read on a bus while crossing Europe on a whirlwind tour. Hitler was a master planner, I can hardly fit everything into one rucksack, never mind coordinate an army.<br/><br/>Had this book for ten years, was able tomake smug yet confident conversation about obscure facts whiletravelling thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33711722">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hobsbawm is a gifted writer, and it's nice to have a Marxist (or possibly post-Marxist, depending on your definitions) stance on our troubled 20th Century.  Unlike the pedantic textbooks you've encountered, and even unlike the politicized history of someone like Zinn, Hobsbawm is awfully good at add...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32755292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5197463">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good read.  A general history, and the first one I've read by Habsbawm in which his Marxism wasn't the predominant feature in determining the story the book tells.  Very interesting, especially his structuring of how history changed in the 1970s.  Overall, I'd recommend it.]]></body>
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    <review id="53781469">
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Hobsbawm. A king among historians. This isn't his best volume, as he really doesn't pay due attention to stuff like the Holocaust, but it's still the second best book-length treatment of the 20th century as a whole that I've read (the best being Kolko's &quot;Century of War&quot;).]]></body>
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    <review id="13208225">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating survey of the Short Twentieth Century in crisp, sinuous prose.  Hobsbawm is a (Marxist) nineteenth-century historian, so it's interesting to see him leave his period and watch the civilization he knows so well fly over the rails.]]></body>
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    <review id="10102486">
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent survey of (most of) the last century.  Very readable.  The author's prejudices shine through occasionally, but it's still the most accessible and far reaching volume I've read on such a vast subject.]]></body>
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    <review id="59728575">
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    <body><![CDATA[not bad as a history of the 20th century.  bit of a slog in parts.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[unflinching and unrepentant left history of the 20th century.  Doesn't sugarcoat the bad news about capitalism's staying power but doesn't buy the bullshit that &quot;there is no alternative&quot; either]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! It is amazing how little you can know about the world in which you live and still get by fairly well.  This book is a great educational tool and I would argue an essential one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It may be a good history book, but I just can't handle the anxiety of reading about all that war and conflict.]]></body>
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