TY - BOOK AU - Hobsbawm, Eric TI - The age of empire 1875-1914 SN - 9780349105987 PY - 1994/// CY - London PB - Abacus Books N2 - In this third volume of his four-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development and expansion of the West, Eric Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth century. “Though written by a professional historian,” Hobsbawm writes of his own work, “[it] is addressed not to other academics, but to all who wish to understand the world and who believe history is important for this purpose ER -