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The Project-State and Its Rivals

Charles S Maier

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic…

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Charles S Maier

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic…

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Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe

An understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since…

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Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe

An understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since…

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Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

Charles S. Maier

Maier examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the U.S. shares their traits and behavior. He outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise…

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Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

Charles S. Maier

At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Charles Maier explores the fitful evolution of territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the…

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Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood

Charles S. Maier

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier’s Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between…

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The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; and advocates of…

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The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a New Preface

Charles S. Maier

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues…

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The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent

Charles S. Maier

An analysis and summary of the events of the Cold War. It discusses different interpretations and provides a selection of essays on the Cold War by well-known politicians and scholars…

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In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy

Charles S. Maier (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Examining the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the 20th century, this collection of essays covers such topics as the economic…

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In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy

Charles S. Maier (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Examining the issue of how western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the 20th century, this collection of essays covers such topics as the economic…

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Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I

Professor Charles S. Maier

One of Princeton University Press’s Notable Centenary Titles –Page 4 of cover.

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Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Charles Maier

Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of the century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, this work recounts the history and demise…

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The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography

The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during WWII. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime…

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Virtual Walls?: Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.

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The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic ‘stagflation,’ political scandal, and global turmoil. This title examines the large-scale…

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The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the problems in preventing a nuclear war.

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