Fractured Times, Paperback/Eric Hobsbawm

Now in paperback, this is an engaging and provocative look at the culture of the 20th century, from the late Hobsbawm. Examines the conditions that created the belle epoque and held the seeds of its disintegration, from paternalistic capitalism to globalisation and the arrival of a mass consumer society. The final book from the author of }The Age Of Extremes{ and }The Age Of Revolution{.