
The Age of Revolution
1789-1848
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Narrated by:
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Hugh Kermode
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By:
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Eric Hobsbawm
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance.
Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.
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Readable, engaging, fast-paced - an indispensable survey of the past two centuries.
Kermode's reading is solid - but the audio quality is poor. Tantor usually does better - how about a remix?
Still - five stars for this extraordinary book!
Brilliant Materialist Interpretation
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Well worth the listen
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Amazing and well organized overview of the Age of Revolution
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I had to slow the audio speed down to 0.8 or 0.9. Otherwise, the British accent and haste of the reader left me uncomprehending. In his dialect, the reader was competent.
Hobsbawm to me presents an extended essay, a commentary, a series of judgments about the events of the period he covers. I'd have preferred basic narrative. From what I've read about Hobsbawm, he was erudite, but to me he inserted as supporting arguments details of what happened in places around Europe and the world, assuming the reader already was quite familiar with the events referred to. Repeatedly, I felt he assumed the reader shared his broad and deep understanding of the events, so Hobsbawm's job was merely to connect them in his hypothesis. Over and over I felt puzzled, like I was missing the point.
I was confused repeatedly by terms the author doesn't define, terms that encompass a lot of complexity: Jacobin, liberal, bourgeois, illuminist, masonic.
The book would have benefited from biographical sketches of characters upon their appearance less cursory than what Hobsbawm provides.
Too often, the tone of the book approaches pedantic assertion, as though Hobsbawm's interpretations and hypotheses are self evident, such that he need not lower himself to my level to get me to understand the events, nor need he carefully explain his sweeping conclusions.
Perhaps the standards for writing of history has changed in 6 decades. Maybe I'm thick headed or out of my depth. But authors must meet the reader at the latter's level.
Nonetheless, the book is dynamic and compelling enough that I am interested in reading the other 3 in this series; and in remediating my deficient knowledge of the historical events.
To me, this book might be best for a reader already expert in the history of 1789-1848, which does not include me, even after listening and concurrently reading this book. And he says nothing about the uprisings of 1848, so I am still looking for a book about that year.
Interesting topic, this book is above my head
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