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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.

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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Fascism --- -Representative government and representation --- -330.34 --- 338 (4) --- 338.22 --- AA / International- internationaal --- EUR / Europe - Europa --- 331.31 --- 331.100 --- 330.46 --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Neo-fascism --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- National socialism --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- History --- -Economische ontwikkeling. Regionale economische ontwikkeling --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Europa --- Economische organisatieleer. Economisch beleid. Economische politiek --- Economisch beleid. --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Hedendaagse periode, met inbegrip van de psychologische school (Oostenrijkse), mathematische school, solidarisme, communisme, marxisme, bolsjewisme, anarchisme. --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Economic conditions --- -Economic policy. --- 338.22 Economische organisatieleer. Economisch beleid. Economische politiek --- 338 (4) Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Europa --- 330.34 Economische ontwikkeling. Regionale economische ontwikkeling --- Economische ontwikkeling. Regionale economische ontwikkeling --- Economisch beleid --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Hedendaagse periode, met inbegrip van de psychologische school (Oostenrijkse), mathematische school, solidarisme, communisme, marxisme, bolsjewisme, anarchisme --- -History --- -Europe

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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 complex history of the GDR. Maier looks at the turning points in East Germany's forty-year history and at the mix of coercion and consent by which the regime functioned. He analyzes the GDR as it evolved from the purges of the 1950s to the peace movements and emerging youth culture of the 1980s, and then turns his attention to charges of Stasi collaboration that surfaced after 1989. In the context of describing the larger collapse of communism, Maier analyzes German elements that had counterparts throughout the Soviet bloc, including its systemic and eventually terminal economic crisis, corruption and privilege in the SED, the influence of the Stasi and the plight of intellectuals and writers, and the slow loss of confidence on the part of the ruling elite. He then discusses the mass protests and proliferation of dissident groups in 1989, the collapse of the ruling party, and the troubled aftermath of unification. Dissolution is the first book that spans the communist collapse and the ensuing process of unification, and that draws on newly available archival documents from the last phases of the GDR, including Stasi reports, transcripts of Politburo and Central Committee debates, and papers from the Economic Planning Commission, the Council of Ministers, and the office files of key party officials. This book is further bolstered by Maier's extensive knowledge of European history and the Cold War, his personal observations and conversations with East Germans during the country's dramatic transition, and memoirs and other eyewitness accounts published during the four-decade history of the GDR.

History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Opposition (Political science) --- Opposition (Science politique) --- Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands --- -Opposition (Political science) --- Socialist Unity Party of Germany --- SED --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ edinai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Germanii --- Német Szocialista Egységpárt --- GESP --- Germanska edinna sot︠s︡ialisticheska partii︠a︡ --- SEPG --- Niemiecka Socjalistyczna Partia Jedności --- Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands --- Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands --- Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany) --- -Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands --- Communism --- Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. --- Germany (East) --- Germany --- Politics and government --- History --- Communisme --- Allemagne (Est) --- Allemagne --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire

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This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Charles S. Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power.

History of North America --- United States --- National characteristics, American --- Imperialism --- History --- Foreign relations --- United States of America --- National characteristics, American. --- History. --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines --- Impérialisme --- Case studies. --- Histoire --- Cas, Etudes de --- Etats-Unis --- Relations extérieures --- National characteristics [American ]

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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 system in the interwar period and during World War II? How do their accomplishments stack up comparatively against those of the liberal democracies? After 1945, what was the relationship between concepts of productivity and class division? How have the major experiences of twentieth-century inflation arisen out of class and interest-group rivalry? Most generally, what has been the representation of interests in capitalist political economies?

Sociology of policy --- History of Europe --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Fascism --- Representative government and representation --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- History --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy.