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

Maier, Professor Charles S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691169799 ISBN 13: 9780691169798

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 stabilization―and not just revolution or breakdown―have made it a classic of European history.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. His many books include Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors, and Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691169799
• ISBN 13: 9780691169798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680