9780691052205 - Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I de Maier, Professor Charles S. (3 résultats)

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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 25 cm, 650 pages. Footnote. Bibliography, Index. No dust jacket present. Ex-library with the usual library markings, including institutional bookplate. Inscribed by the author (dated 2006). Inscription on the half-title page reads For Alan Lewis--Charles Maier Washington 10/16/06. Examines a critical topic in the disciplining of forces for change: how political and economic elites retained their power following war, economic dislocation, and domestic turmoil--stresses that make social leveling inevitable. Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939, in New York City) is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs the Weatherhead Initiative in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an Alexander von Humboldt research prize fellowship, the Cross of Honor of the German Federal Republic, and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, first class, of the Republic of Austria. The University of Padua awarded him a laurea honoris causa in European Studies in January 2018. Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilizationâ"and not just revolution or breakdownâ"have made it a classic of European history.