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The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution , and the creation of nation states .
Revolution exploded in France in the summer of 1789, after many decades of ideological ferment, political decline, and social unrest. Ideologically, thinkers of the Enlightenment urged that governments should promote the greatest good of all people, not the narrow interests of a particular elite.
The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789–1848 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962. It is the first in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), followed by The Age of Capital: 1848–1875, and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914.
THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1763 – 1790 OVERVIEW. At the end of the French and Indian War (1754 – 1763), British North America was a scattered patchwork of individual colonies that had been allowed to develop their own economic and political systems during a previous 40-year period of neglect by the government in London.
Sep 21, 2018 · The Age of Revolutions is a period in history between c.1775-1848. Over the course of these years, society underwent a series of revolutions in almost all theatres of life: political, war, social and cultural, and economic and technological.
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848. Eric J. Hobsbawm. 4.21. 7,285 ratings456 reviews. This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance.
Nov 26, 1996 · A brilliant analysis of the social and economic transformation experienced during the period from 1789 - 1848 engendered by what Hobsbawm identifies as the "dual revolution:" The French Revolution and the English Industrial Revolution.
- Eric Hobsbawm
Explore the Age of Revolution through our four key themes: Political revolution, War and the international order, Social and cultural revolution, and Economic and technological revolution.
Jan 1, 1995 · Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.
- Eric J. Hobsbawm
Oct 19, 2023 · A wave of revolutions took place in the 1700s, an era commonly known as the Age Enlightenment—revolutions in France, in Latin America, and in the American colonies. In all these countries, the revolutions not only changed the political systems and replaced them with new ones, but they altered public belief and brought about sweeping changes ...
