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_aHobsbawm, Eric
245 _a(The) Age of extremes
_ba history of the world, 1914-1991
_cby Eric Hobsbawm
260 _aNew York
_bVintage Books
_c1994
300 _axii, 627p. :
_bill. ;
_c20.5 cm.
500 _aIncludes references, further reading and index.
505 0 _aPART ONE: THE AGE OF CATASTROPHE: The age of total war -- The world revolution -- Into the economic abyss -- The fall of liberalism -- The arts 1914-45 -- End of empires -- PART TWO: THE GOLDEN AGE: Cold war -- The golden years -- The social revolution 1945-1990 -- Cultural revolution -- The third world -- ''Real Socialism'' -- PART THREE: THE LANDSLIDE: The crisis decades -- Third world and revolution -- End of socialism -- The avant-garde dies- the arts after 1950 -- Sorcerers and apprentices - The natural sciences -- Towards the millennium
650 _aHistory
_zWorld History
_y20th century, 1900-1999
650 _aHistory
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