On Empire America, War, and Global Supremacy

Name: On Empire America, War, and Global Supremacy
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ISBN: 9780375425370

ISBN-10: 0375425373

ISBN-13: 9780375425370

Edition: 2008

Authors: Eric J. Hobsbawm

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In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium. With his usual measured and brilliant historical perspective, Eric Hobsbawm traces the rise of American hegemony in the twenty-first century. He examines the state of steadily increasing world disorder in the context of rapidly growing inequalities created by rampant free-market globalization. He makes clear that there is no longer a plural power system of states whose relations are governed by common laws--including those for the conduct of war. He…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Eric Hobsbawm is a neo-Marxist historian of the Industrial Revolution who pays particular attention to the inequities toward the lower classes, especially in law and politics.




On the End of Empires



War and Peace in the Twentieth Century



War, Peace, and Hegemony at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century



Why America's Hegemony Differs from Britain's Empire


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