Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 offers an incisive analysis of the tumultuous century, dividing it into three epochs: the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Crisis Decades. Hobsbawm integrates politics, culture, and economics, providing a global perspective and warnings about neoliberalism’s rise. It is a crucial read…

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