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100 1 Hobsbawm, E. J.|q(Eric J.),|d1917-2012|4aut
245 10 Fractured times :|bculture and society in the twentieth
century /|cEric Hobsbawm
264 1 London :|bAbacus,|c2014
300 304 pages|c20 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
520 "Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the
most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through
his work, he observed the great twentieth-century
confrontation between bourgeois fin de siecle culture and
myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and
extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of
information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with
characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural
fragmentation. Hobsbawm examines the conditions that both
created the flowering of the belle epoque and held the
seeds of its disintegration: paternalistic capitalism,
globalization, and the arrival of a mass consumer society.
Passionate but never sentimental, he ranges freely across
subjects as diverse as classical music, the fine arts,
rock music, and sculpture. He records the passing of the
golden age of the "free intellectual" and explores the
lives of forgotten greats; analyzes the relationship
between art and totalitarianism; and dissects phenomena as
diverse as surrealism, art nouveau, the emancipation of
women, and the myth of the American cowboy. Written with
consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is the
last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers."--
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648 7 1900-talet|2sao
650 0 Culture|xHistory|y20th century
650 0 Civilization, Modern|y20th century
650 7 Historia|2sao
650 7 Kultur|xhistoria|2sao
655 4 Historia och arkeologi
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