The Age Of Capital: 1848 1875

Author: Eric Hobsbawm

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Price : 26.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780349104805
Publisher : Little Brown
Imprint : Basic Books
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Weight (g) : 0.294
Publication date : October 2003
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Author : Eric Hobsbawm
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A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitve private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest.