The age of revolution 1789-1848 1st Vintage Books ed.

**The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789–1848** is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962. It is the first in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (coined by Hobsbawm), followed by *The Age of Capital: 1848–1875*, and *The Age of Empire: 1875–1914*. A fourth book, *The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991*, acts as a sequel to the trilogy.