Industry and Empire

The Birth of the Industrial

Revolution
Eric Hobsbawm
An updated edition of the classic study of the Industrial
Revolution by one of the few genuinely great historians of
our century (The New Republic)
A masterly survey of the major economic developments and changes of the last two hundred years,
sharply and ironically observed, and elegantly written. The Guardian
Purchase paperback $19.95
Published: September 1999
Paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 , 432 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56584-561-9

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Premier historian Eric Hobsbawms 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 Industry and Empire, 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 Britains 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.
Topics: World History/WWII

Eric Hobsbawm

Books by Eric Hobsbawm

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.
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