Books like The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848

Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume. It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its writing, but in its focus and biases. For all his Marxism, Hobsbawm was very much a bourgeois Brit. There is also the business of Hobsbawm's defense of Stalinism. This is a very interesting clip - an interview with Michael Ignatieff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnd2P...To rate it now is to give it 4-stars. (Hard to imagine a better, more thoughtful, more thoroughly digested and original survey of a period which I wanted and needed to know much more about.)