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He wrote a three volume work on modern history
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And its not very good. Don't get me wrong, Hobsbawm when dealing with his period (18th and 19th century economic and political history) he is one of those key historians, if not the best living historian. But quite why he delved out of his field and wrote Age of Extremes is beyond me.
And Age of Extremes is not his new book, it came out in '94.