The Age of Extremes
BOOK
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991; Age of Extremes; The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991; The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991; Age of extremes
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state socialism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an equally skeptical take on the progress of the arts and changes in society in the latter half of the twentieth century.