{"product_id":"fractured-times-culture-and-society-in-the-twentieth-century-9781595589774","title":"Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century","description":"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 si cle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In \u003ci\u003eFractured Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Hobsbawm, with characteristic verve, unpacks a century of cultural fragmentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHobsbawm examines the conditions that both created the flowering of the belle  poque 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with consummate imagination and skill, \u003ci\u003eFractured Times\u003c\/i\u003e is the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Hobsbawm\u003c\/strong\u003e (1917-2012) was born in Egypt in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany, and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Capital\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Extremes\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eOn History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUncommon People\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIndustry and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBandits\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn the Edge of the New Century\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRevolutionaries\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFractured Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and his memoir \u003cem\u003eInteresting Times\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492966306066,"sku":"9781595589774","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bcfa090f-5211-49c6-a8d0-1d48ed40bf47.jpg?v=1730618051","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fractured-times-culture-and-society-in-the-twentieth-century-9781595589774","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}