Historia del siglo XX

Eric Hobsbawm, the great British historian, is, perhaps, one of the few professionals who could face the study of a historical era of which we, author and readers, are still a part. He has done so with a great knowledge of specialized and non-specialized bibliography, and with his own experiences and observations, which he has skillfully interwoven into a masterful synthesis in which one advances with growing expectation. His work abounds in incisive analyses, based on solid arguments and devoid of inhibition before facts that have traditionally been considered too close to comment on. Hobsbawm opines and judges and does so, as Vilar wants, only after having understood. From those ten days that shook the world to the very threshold of the third millennium, Professor Hobsbawm covers all that he calls "the short 20th century" in a work that, even before appearing in English, had already earned the most enthusiastic praise from critics, and whose Spanish edition was published on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Eric Hobsbawm, the great British historian, is, perhaps, one of the few professionals who could face the study of a historical era of which we, author and readers, are still a part. He has done so with a great knowledge of specialized and non-specialized bibliography, and with his own experiences and observations, which he has skillfully interwoven into a masterful synthesis in which one advances with growing expectation. His work abounds in incisive analyses, based on solid arguments and devoid of inhibition before facts that have traditionally been considered too close to comment on. Hobsbawm opines and judges and does so, as Vilar wants, only after having understood. From those ten days that shook the world to the very threshold of the third millennium, Professor Hobsbawm covers all that he calls "the short 20th century" in a work that, even before appearing in English, had already earned the most enthusiastic praise from critics, and whose Spanish edition was published on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.