The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848

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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (1962) is a history book by British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. It is the first in a trilogy of books about the "the long 19th century", a term he first uses. Hobsbawm was the first to recognize and put in place an understanding of the early 19th century, and indeed the whole process of modernization thereafter, using what he calls the twin (or dual) revolution thesis. This thesis recognized the dual importance of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as mid-wives of modern European history - and through the connections of colonialism and imperialism - world history.