What to Read After The Age of Extremes
Readers who loved The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Age of Extremes is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Age of Extremes
Postwar
Dark Continent
The making of the English working class
Civilization and Capitalism, 15Th-18th Century
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
The Age of Revolution
The Age of Capital
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Long Twentieth Century
Liberalism
Pursuit of Glory
The History of England
Late Victorian Holocausts
Making of Global Capitalism
The Anatomy of Fascism
The Passing of an Illusion
Medieval Civilization, 400-1500
Nations and Nationalism Since 1780
What Is History?
On History
Interesting Times
The Invention of tradition
Imagined Communities
The Great Transformation