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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concentrated excellence
If you only have time to read one book on the twentieth century, this must be it. Of necessity, the brushstrokes are broad, but the portrait is compelling nonetheless. Unlike a previous reviewer, I did not find it eurocentric. Hobsbawm's perspective is essentially global.
Published on July 1, 2006 by Ray de Kretser
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6 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the U.S.?
Far be it for this politically incorrect reader to accuse a writer of Eurocentrism, but this book talks so little about the U.S., it seems like every time it's mentioned it is an afterthought. For better or worse this short century has been heavily influenced--even dominated--by the United States. If Hobsbawm is to live up to the world-class historian he claims to be,...
Published on December 5, 1997
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concentrated excellence,
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This review is from: Age of Extremes (Paperback)
If you only have time to read one book on the twentieth century, this must be it. Of necessity, the brushstrokes are broad, but the portrait is compelling nonetheless. Unlike a previous reviewer, I did not find it eurocentric. Hobsbawm's perspective is essentially global.
6 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the U.S.?,
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This review is from: Age of Extremes Hb (Hardcover)
Far be it for this politically incorrect reader to accuse a writer of Eurocentrism, but this book talks so little about the U.S., it seems like every time it's mentioned it is an afterthought. For better or worse this short century has been heavily influenced--even dominated--by the United States. If Hobsbawm is to live up to the world-class historian he claims to be, he needs to pull his head out of the European sand and realize that America deserves more thoughtful treatment in any 20th century historical analysis.
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Age of Extremes Hb by E. J. Hobsbawm (Hardcover - October 27, 1994)
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