The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a book by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm. It is the third in a trilogy of books about "the long 19th century" (The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century,
The Age of Empire covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.