On Empire: America, War, and Global SupremacyIn four brief chapters encompassing a century of world history, Hobsbawm engages the key questions of our era with his characteristic wit, precision, and historical breadth of knowledge. A startling image of danger and instability emerges as On Empire sketches the tangled relationship between globalization, war, and the prospects for peace in a world that has witnessed uninterrupted military conflict since 1914. It is against this somber backdrop that

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With a veritable who’s who of today’s most renowned and distinguished classical translators

and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times