The project-state and its rivals : a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Maier, Charles S.
The project-state and its rivals : a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Charles S. Maier - Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (529 pages)
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Cover -- Title Page -- Coyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 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.
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.
9780674293175
Weltgeschichte
Politics, Practical-Social aspects. Politics and culture Political sociology.
Fernzugriff
The project-state and its rivals : a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Charles S. Maier - Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (529 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Title Page -- Coyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 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.
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.
9780674293175
Weltgeschichte
Politics, Practical-Social aspects. Politics and culture Political sociology.
Fernzugriff