The project-state and its rivals : a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Londen, England : Harvard University Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Political sociology Politics and culture-History-20th century Politics and culture-History-21st century Politics, Practical-Social aspects Twentieth century Twenty-first century Politics and culture Politics, Practical Geschichte Politischer Prozess mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 510 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this we discern the unfolding of our own troubled time. Introduction: History's Protagonists -- Part One: The Era of World Wars -- 1. Paths to the Project-State -- 2. The Promise of Resource Empires -- 3. The Realm of Governance and the Web of Capital -- Part Two: Mid-Century Ambitions -- 4. Projects for the Postwar: Nations, Empires, and Governance, 1940s-1960s -- 5. Countervailing Power? Capital's Projects and Their Limits, 1948-1960s -- 6. Contesting the Postwar Order: Coal, Steel, Oil, and Dollars, 1950s-1970s -- Part Three: Contending Projects since the 1970s -- 7. Deploying Governance -- 8. Reinventions, 1978-1990s -- 9. Convergences and Catastrophe: States, Governance, and Capital -- 10. The Populist Assertion and the Return of Authoritarianism -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 510 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780674293175 0674293177 9780674290143 0674290143 |