The Age of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914
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帝国时代：1875–1914
DOI：
10.2307/2596244
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发表时间：
1989
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
E. Hobsbawm
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作者：
E. Hobsbawm
这本书的标题是关于19世纪的死亡，这个世界是由自由的中产阶级以普遍进步和文明的名义创造的，也是为了中产阶级而创造的。它是关于实现了的希望变成了恐惧：一个前所未有的和平时代带来了一个前所未有的战争时代；起义和革命不可避免地出现在稳定繁荣的西方社会的边缘；资产阶级的传统道德基础在他们自身积累的财富和舒适的压力下崩溃，一个新的和突然的大规模工人运动拒绝资本主义，新的中产阶级拒绝自由主义，这是一个深刻的身份危机时代。它是关于由欧洲人的小群体建立并几乎轻蔑地轻松维持的世界帝国，这些帝国只持续了一个人的一生，以及欧洲对世界历史的统治，从来没有比它即将永远消失的那一刻更自信。
This title is about the death of the 19th century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilization. It is about hopes realized which turned into fears: an era of unparalled peace engendering an era of unparalled war; revolt and revolution inevitably emerging on the outskirts of a stable and flourishing Western society; an era of profound identity crises for bourgeois classes whose traditional moral foundations crumbled under the pressure of their own accumulations of wealth and comfort, among a new and sudden mass labour movement which rejected capitalism, new middle classes which rejected liberalism. It is about world empires built and held with almost contemptuous ease by small bodies of Europeans, which were to last barely a human lifetime, and a European domination of world history never more confident than at the moment when it was about to disappear forever.