- Economic history, Modern History, World history, Cultural history
**The Age of Capital: 1848–1875** is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by *The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848* and followed by *The Age of Empire: 1875–1914*.
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- Author
- Eric Hobsbawm
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 393
- Publisher
- Fayard, Cardinal, Stvarnost
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Portuguese, gre, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780747402916
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“Early in 1848 the eminent French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville rose in the Chamber of Deputies to express sentiments which most Europeans shared: 'We are sleeping on a volcano...Do you not see that the earth trembles anew?”
Eric Ernest Hobsbawm was a British academic historian and Marxist historiographer.
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