This is an auction for THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm.

"Its sheer power and eloquence will make this book a classic."

• Sunday Observer (UK)

"It is Mr Hobsbawm's achievement both to have captured the exuberance of an age, and to have shown how and why that world was coming to an end. . . . He not only captures the age of empire he also illuminates the course of the 20th century."

• The Economist

"A virtuoso performance. . . . Few, if any, present practitioners of the historian's craft can equal. the astonishing range and dazzling erudition of Mr Hobsbawm's scholarship."

• New York Times Book Review

"A splendid answer to those critics who complain that academic historians no longer write readable prose. . . . The great strength of this book is the way in which what seems in so many ways a wholly vanished epoch is related to our situation today."

• The New York Review of Books

Amazon.com review:

"In this third volume of his history of the modern world, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century. “Though written by a professional historian,” Hobsbawm writes of his own work, "it is addressed not to other academics, but to all who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose.”

"FIVE STARS!! Wow! I've just finished Hobsbawm's survey of the major historical, political, economic, and cultural developments of the 19th century, of which this is the third volume. And let me say, it was well worth it! This is history that engages you, and has something really interesting to say. I think this was the best of the three volumes."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Hardback 1987.

404 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.