AgeOfCapital1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and was educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with honorary degrees from universities in several countries, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York. Also by Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Revolution 1789–1848 (Phoenix Press) The Age of Empire 1875–1914 (Phoenix Press) Age of Extremes 1914–1991 THE AGE OF CAPITAL 1848–1875 Eric Hobsbawm To Marlene, Andrew and Julia CONTENTS Cover Title Dedication About the Author Preface Introduction Maps PART ONE: REVOLUTIONARY PRELUDE 1 ‘The Springtime of Peoples’ PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS 2 The Great Boom 3 The World Unified 4 Conflicts and War 5 Building Nations 6 The Forces of Democracy 7 Losers 8 Winners 9 Changing Society PART THREE: RESULTS 10 The Land 11 Men Moving 12 City, Industry, the Working Class 13 The Bourgeois World 14 Science, Religion, Ideology 15 T......