by Eric J. Hobsbawm · Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432313929
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This book by Eric J. Hobsbawm is an essential study to understand the gestation of a social and labor environment that paved the way for the first industrial revolution and the emergence of capitalist society. The volume compiles three key works by the renowned British historian on the conflictive 17th century, a period of crisis where the limits of feudalism faced the new structures of nascent capitalism in certain European regions. This century marked the end of empires, revolts, and profound social changes, while the Mediterranean lost its hegemony and northern Europe began to lead a world in crisis, showing the first signs of the new economic system that would give rise to industrial society.
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" and the "short 20th century", and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". He was a life-long Marxist, and his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.
