The Age of Capital: 1848–1875

The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1975. It is the second in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), preceded by The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 and followed by The Age of Empire: 1875–1914. A fourth book, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.

The Age of Capital: 1848–1875

Author	Eric Hobsbawm
Cover artist	Robert Howlett, photograph of Brunel by the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, 1857
Country	United Kingdom, United States
Language	English
Subject	History
Publisher	Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) Vintage Books (U.S.)
Publication date	1975
Pages	384
ISBN	978-0-297-76992-7
Preceded by	The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848
Followed by	The Age of Empire: 1875–1914

Hobsbawm analyzed the 19th and 20th century processes of modernization using what he calls the dual revolution thesis, which recognized the dual importance of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as midwives of modern European history, and (through the connections of colonialism and imperialism) world history.

Contents

• Part I. Revolutionary Prelude
  • 1. "The Springtime of Peoples"
• Part II. Developments
  • 2. The Great Boom
  • 3. The World Unified
  • 4. Conflicts and War
  • 5. Building Nations
  • 6. The Forces of Democracy
  • 7. Losers
  • 8. Winners
  • 9. Changing Society
• Part III. Results
  • 10. The Land
  • 11. Men Moving
  • 12. City, Industry, the Working Class
  • 13. The Bourgeois World
  • 14. Science, Religion, Ideology
  • 15. The Arts
  • 16. Conclusion

References

• The age of capital 1848-1875 - Eric Hobsbawm