Status Updates From The Age of Revolution, 1789...

Listening to at work. I probably should save this to actually read but who cares. Main thing I’m noticing so far is that Hobsbawm is an excellent stylist. A quote I particularly liked regarding the provincial towns in which most urban populations actually lived:

“But these were also the towns out of which the ardent and ambitious young men came to make revolutions or their first million; or both.”