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Why was it that whenever the Tudor-Stuart regime most loudly trumpeted its moderation, that regime was at its most vicious? This groundbreaking book argues that the ideal of moderation, so central to English history and identity, functioned as a tool of social, religious and political power. Thus The Rule of Moderation rewrites the history of early modern England, showing that many of its key developments - the via media of Anglicanism, political liberty, the development of empire and even religious toleration - were defined and defended as instances of coercive moderation, producing the 'middle way' through the forcible restraint of apparently dangerous excesses in Church, state and society. By showing that the quintessentially English quality of moderation was at heart an ideology of control, Ethan Shagan illuminates the subtle violence of English history and explains how, paradoxically, England came to represent reason, civility and moderation to a world it slowly conquered.
History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1799 --- Moderation. --- Great Britain --- History. --- Golden mean --- Mean, Golden --- England --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Modération --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- Grande-Bretagne --- POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT --- 1485-1603 --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1603-1714
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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.
History --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Aristide Briand. --- Benito Mussolini. --- Cartel des Gauches. --- Europe. --- Fascists. --- France. --- Francesco Saverio Nitti. --- Georges Clemenceau. --- Germany. --- Giovanni Giolitti. --- Gustav Stresemann. --- Italy. --- Joseph Wirth. --- Radical Socialist Party. --- Raymond Poincar. --- Ruhr conflict. --- Social Democratic Party. --- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. --- World War II. --- big business. --- bourgeois. --- bourgeoisie. --- capitalism. --- class divisions. --- class. --- coal industry. --- coalitions. --- conservatives. --- corporatism. --- deflation. --- economic restructuring. --- economic stabilization. --- elections. --- elites. --- fascism. --- heavy industry. --- inflation. --- interest groups. --- labor market. --- left. --- liberalism. --- majorities. --- mass communications. --- moderation. --- nationalism. --- parliamentary elections. --- parliamentary politics. --- parliaments. --- political ecology. --- political economy. --- political stabilization. --- politics. --- recession. --- reparations. --- revaluation. --- social conflict. --- social democracy. --- social vulnerability. --- socialists. --- socialization. --- sovereignty. --- stability. --- state authority. --- taxes. --- terrorism. --- unions.
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