Eric Hobsbawn is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New York School for Social Reseach in New York.The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History GreatMagnificentA superb achievment, incisive, illuminating and readableA superbly rich and erudite portrait of a society which was evolving rapidly under a avriety of pressures - economic, technological and politicalHobsbawm is a master historian
