Ben Waber reviewed The Age of Empire 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
Informative but Basic History
3 stars
This book is the last of Hobsbawm's original trilogy, and similar to the second it covers the 40 years prior to WWI in a standard fashion - informative but with little insight. Despite being written in the late 90s, it's just as inexcusably racist as the other volumes. If you can ignore that (it's hard) it's a fine book on the period, but it's unremarkable from a modern perspective.
This book is the last of Hobsbawm's original trilogy, and similar to the second it covers the 40 years prior to WWI in a standard fashion - informative but with little insight. Despite being written in the late 90s, it's just as inexcusably racist as the other volumes. If you can ignore that (it's hard) it's a fine book on the period, but it's unremarkable from a modern perspective.