Book, Age of Empires, A: 1875-1914[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In this book, the author analyzes the years that defined the 19th century. Launching the author's research and theories on capitalist expansion and European domination, The Age of Empires shows facts that marked a period of peace, but which triggered a period of war and crisis. Hobsbawm integrates the culture, politics and social life of the decades leading up to the First World War, constructing a stimulating and innovative interpretation. Hobsbawm also analyzes, in this book, the creative explosion in culture and the arts - it is the era of Freud, Einstein, Schonberg and Picasso. With the theoretical precision and capacity for synthesis known from previous works - The era of revolutions and The era of capital -, the author examines the creation of vast European empires that lasted just one or two generations."The age of revolutions, The age of capital, The age of empires (...) present the same surprising set of qualities: synthesis; wealth of details; global scope, at the same time with an accurate vision of regional differences; fluency; power of analysis; and, also, clarity and remarkable vivacity". - London Review of books