Industry and Empire - by Eric Hobsbawm (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In <i>Industry and Empire</i>, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory on the lives of its ordinary citizens. This new edition includes a fascinating summary of events of the last twenty years, and an illuminating new conclusion.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of <i>The Age of Revolution</i>, <i>The Age of Capital</i>, <i>The Age of Empire</i>, and <i>The Age of Extremes</i>, and The New Press has published his books <i>On History</i>, <i>Uncommon People</i>, <i>Industry and Empire</i>, <i>Bandits</i>, <i>On the Edge of the New Century</i>, <i>Revolutionaries</i>, his memoir <i>Interesting Times</i>, <i>On Empire</i>, and <i>Fractured Times</i>. Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012.<br>
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