Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm

Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm

319 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art essays history informative reflective slow-paced
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Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism, globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never sentimental, h...

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