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Eric Hobsbawn is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New York School for Social Reseach in New York.
The 'short' 20th century has fluctuated between the extremes of war and catastrophe (the 1914-45 era when the 19th-century liberal capitalist world order was destroyed by the forces of nationalism, bolshevism and fascism), a short-lived 'Golden Age' of unparalleled economic growth and prosperity (1945-73) and the 'Crisis Decades' of the late 20th century when the old moral certainties and the old political and economic structures have collapsed, leaving behind a world whose future direction is both uncertain and perhaps perilous. This brilliant and incisive analysis of the history of the world since 1914 by veteran left-wing revisionist historian Eric Hobsbawm is full of penetrating insights. An intellectual tour de force, it is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand what Isaiah Berlin has called 'the most terrible century in Western history'. (Kirkus UK)
