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<DIV>Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In <EM>Fractured Times</EM>, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation.<BR><BR>Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts, rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of women, and the myth of the American cowboy. <BR><BR>Written with consummate imagination and skill, <EM>Fractured Times<

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Author

Eric J Hobsbawm

Publisher

The New Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595589927

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Art

Rating

3.76 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14