This author has - avid subscribers to these platforms as well as casual readers are aware - fairly regularly invoked the late Eric Hobsbawm’s unique conceptual paradigm of historical time, in particular his tendency to identify the 20th century as the short century. Hobsbawm’s notion being that the 20th century truly commenced in 1914 with onset of host…
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