TEHRAN – “The Age of Capital, 1848-1875” by Eric J. Hobsbawm has been published in Persian by Akhtaran.

Ali-Akbar Mahdian is the translator of the book that was first published by Vintage Books in 1975.

In this book, Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. 

Along with Hobsbawm’s other volumes, this book constitutes an intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live.

Although it pulses with great events—failed revolutions, catastrophic wars, and a global depression, “The Age of Capital” is outstanding for its analysis of the trends that created the new order.

With the sweep and sophistication that have made him one of our greatest historians, Hobsbawm identifies this epoch’s winners and losers, its institutions, ideologies, science and religion.

The book is the second part of Hobsbawm’s trilogy on the nineteenth century, which also comprises “The Age of Revolution” and “The Age of Empire”.

Hobsbawm, a self-confessed “unrepentant communist”, was professor emeritus of the economic and social history of the University of London at Birkbeck.

He wrote many acclaimed historical works, including “The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century 1914-1991” and his recent autobiography, “Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life”.

Photo: Front cover of the Persian edition of Eric J. Hobsbawm’s book “The Age of Capital, 1848-1875”.

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