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  | | Leviathan 2.0 Inventing Modern Statehood by Charles S. Maier Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-28132-5, ISBN: 0-674-28132-2 "Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 18 ..." |
 | | Among Empires(6th Edition) American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier, Cs Maier Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02556-1, ISBN: 0-674-02556-3 " Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whe ..." |
 | | The Unmasterable Past(1st Edition) History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface by Charles S. Maier Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1997 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-92977-7, ISBN: 0-674-92977-2 "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 immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective ..." |
 | | Dissolution(Updated) by Professor Charles S. Maier, Pat Maier Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1999 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00746-5, ISBN: 0-691-00746-2 "Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, Charles Maier recounts the history and demise of East Germany. Dissolution is his poignant, analytically provocative account of the decline and fall of the late German Democratic Republic. This book explains the powerful causes for the disintegration of German communism as it constructs the com ..." |
 | | Once Within Borders(1st Edition) Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 by Charles S. Maier Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05978-8, ISBN: 0-674-05978-6 "Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories―politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian ..." |
 | | The Cold War in Europe(3rd Edition) Era of a Divided Continent by Charles S. Maier Paperback, 405 Pages, Published 2010 by Markus Wiener Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-55876-133-9, ISBN: 1-55876-133-0 "Now that the Cold War is over, this book is especially timely: it analyzes and summarizes the events that ushered in an epoch of history nearly fifty years ago, and provides an analysis of the forces that were suppressed or strengthened during the Cold War, and some of which are now unleashed again. This book discusses the different interpretations of the Cold War. A selection of the most important essays on the origins of the Cold War ..." |
 | | In Search of Stability Explorations in Historical Political Economy (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies) by Charles S. Maier, Albert Hirschman Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1988 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34698-6, ISBN: 0-521-34698-3 "In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the twentieth century. Successive essays ask: what ideological messages did American influence transmit to Europe after World War I, then again after World War II? Did Nazis and Italian fascists share an economic ideology or impose a unique economic sy ..." |
 | | The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography by Joshua A. Fogel, Charles S. Maier Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22007-2, ISBN: 0-520-22007-2 "The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing wa ..." |
 | | The Unmasterable Past(1st Edition) History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1988 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-92975-3, ISBN: 0-674-92975-6 "... and the successive political purges — one of thirty- three districts produced a supposed 34,000 executions (p. 298) — including a final 1978 purge in the eastern zone that took about 100,000 lives (pp. 320-322). 27. The literature is fragmentary and usually written from a nationalist perspective; but see Richard G. Hovannasian, The Armenian Genocide in Retrospect (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1986); Gerard Chalian and Yves T ..." |
 | | The Unmasterable Past(1st Edition) History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1990 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-92976-0, ISBN: 0-674-92976-4 "For a harsh (I think excessive) critique of Hillgruber, which appeared at the same time as Habermas's major attack, see Michael Brumlik, "Neuer Staatsmythos Ostfront" [New myth of state — Eastern Front], Tageszeitung, July 12, 1986: "For the ..." |
 | | The Shock of the Global The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson, Erez Manela, Ayesha Jalal, Thomas Borstelmann, Matthew Connelly, Louis Hyman, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Kotkin, Daniel J. Sargent, Charles S. Maier, Jocelyn Olcott, Vernie Oliveiro, Andrew Preston, Glenda Sluga, Jeremi Suri, Mark Atwood Lawrence, Francis J. Gavin, J. R. Mcneill, Michael Cotey Morgan, Alan M. Taylor, Rebecca J. Sheehan, Odd Arne Westad, Mark Atwood Mcneill, Belknap Press Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2011 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06186-6, ISBN: 0-674-06186-1 " 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. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after the great divisions of the mid-twentieth century. It was the 1970s that introduced the world to the phenomenon of "globalization," as networks of interdependence ..." |
 | | Recasting Bourgeois Europe(Updated) Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I by Professor Charles S. Maier, Charles S. Maier Paperback, 680 Pages, Published 2015 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-16979-8, ISBN: 0-691-16979-9 " 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 ..." |
 | | Recasting Bourgeois Europe(75th Edition) by Charles S. Maier Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 1975 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-10025-8, ISBN: 0-691-10025-X " The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history. Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first book, presented an unparalleled analysis of the crucial decade in Europe after 1918. Based on extensive archival research in each of the three countries, the book examined how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and econom ..." |
 | | Changing Boundaries of the Political Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies) by Charles S. Maier, Albert Hirschman Paperback, 428 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34847-8, ISBN: 0-521-34847-1 "... the ecclesiastical organization of a religion which proclaimed to be "catholic," that is, worldwide and aiming at assembling men ... as a reason for obeying based on membership in a salvific community of souls, only of a fundamentally different spirituality. ... and that norms should be applied universally - a potent weapon to expand spiritual control beyond all boundaries. ... of the spiritual from the temporal powers is at th ..." |
 | | The Project-State and Its Rivals A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Charles S. Maier Published 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-29014-3, ISBN: 0-674-29014-3 "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 apolitical values, ..." |
 | | Among Empires American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02189-1, ISBN: 0-674-02189-4 " Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks wheth ..." |
 | | The Shock of the Global(10th Edition) The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson, Erez Manela, Contributor-Jeremy Adelman, Contributor-Thomas Borstelmann, Contributor-Matthew Connelly, Contributor-Louis Hyman, Contributor-Ayesha Jalal, Contributor-Stephen Kotkin, Jocelyn Olcott, Vernie Oliveiro, Andrew Preston, Glenda Sluga, Jeremi Suri, Charles S. Maier, Daniel J. Sargent, Mark Atwood Lawrence, J. R. Mcneill, Francis J. Gavin, Michael Cotey Morgan, Alan M. Taylor, Rebecca J. Sheehan, Odd Arne Westad Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2010 by Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04904-8, ISBN: 0-674-04904-7 " 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. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after the great divisions of the mid-twentieth century. It was the 1970s that introduced the world to the phenomenon of "globalization," as networks of interdependence ..." |
 | | Dissolution(1st Edition) The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany by Professor Charles S. Maier Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 1997 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07879-3, ISBN: 0-691-07879-3 " Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, Charles Maier recounts the history and demise of East Germany. Dissolution is his poignant, analytically provocative account of the decline and fall of the late German Democratic Republic. This book explains the powerful causes for the disintegration of German communism as it constructs the comple ..." |
 | | Recasting Bourgeois Europe(1st Edition) Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I by Charles S. Maier Hardcover, 672 Pages, Published 1975 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05220-5, ISBN: 0-691-05220-4 " The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history. Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first book, presented an unparalleled analysis of the crucial decade in Europe after 1918. Based on extensive archival research in each of the three countries, the book examined how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic ..." |
 | | Changing Boundaries of the Political Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies) by Charles S. Maier, Albert Hirschman, Cambridge University Press Hardcover, 428 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34366-4, ISBN: 0-521-34366-6 "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 the 1960s." |
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