Hobsbawm describes the "dual revolution"—the civil revolution and the industrial revolution—between 1789 and 1848 from a holistic historical perspective. He meticulously analyzes and systematizes the unfolding of the dual revolution.

The great revolution of 1789-1848 was not a triumph of 'industry per se' but of 'capitalist' industry, not a triumph of freedom and equality in general but of the 'middle class' or 'bourgeois free society'.
Moreover, it was not a victory of a 'modern economy' or a 'modern state', but rather a victory of several economies and states within a specific region (parts of Europe and a small part of North America) centered around Britain and France, which were adjacent and competing with each other.
The transformations of 1789-1848 were essentially a pair of cataclysms that took place in these two countries and spread throughout the world.

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