The energy balance

The English Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm is revered by generations of students for his masterful trilogy on England’s economic and social history in the “long nineteenth century”. The books describe how capitalism first became firmly entrenched in Europe and was then exported to the rest of the world. They go by the titles The Age of Revolution (which covers the period 1789-1848), The Age of Capital (1848-1875) and The Age of Empire (1875-1914).

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