read this one this week:
starting this one today:
got this one in the queue:
starting this one today:
got this one in the queue:
I read them two or three summers ago. They are excellent. As someone who was educated in the American public schooling system, my historical knowledge is extremely limited. Honestly, I made it through an undergraduate program in the humanities without being able to supply an accurate definition of the basic terms of modern political discourse. His 20th century book (Age of Extremes) is also great, which I read the following year. After I finished reading the whole series, I finally felt like I had a established a pretty solid foundation to actually engage with and think about the world.Gene Bootcut wrote:Thinking of reading Eric Hobsbawm's Long 19th Century series - The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848, The Age of Capital: 1848 - 1875, The Age of Empire: 1875 - 1914 and also The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914 - 1991. Probably quite daunting but I've been meaning to read him for years and my interest was further piqued by the excellent LRB documentary that came out yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQ4dfC34TI
do we have anyone who's read any of them and wants to tell me how brilliant they are?
Paul Westerberg wrote:“They always fall. But damn, it feels so good for that one split second.”
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