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War and social change in modern Europe : the great transformation revisisted / Sandra Halperin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halperin, Sandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Economic conditions.
- Europe.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 510 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- War & Social Change in Modern Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944), however, it argues that Polanyi's analysis is, in important ways, inaccurate and misleading. Ultimately, the book shows how and why the conflicts both culminated in the world wars and brought about a 'great transformation' in Europe. Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.
- Contents:
- Conflict and change in world politics
- The first transformation : social forces in the rise of Europe's nineteenth-century market system
- Europe's nineteenth-century industrial expansion : a "bottom up" perspective
- Europe's century of war, 1815-1914
- World War I and the postwar retrenchment
- The polarization of European society, 1918-1939
- The politics of appeasement and counterrevolution : international relations in Europe, 1918-1939
- The post-World War II order
- The great transformation and the eternal return : "globalization" reconsidered.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-498) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14506-6
- 1-280-43736-7
- 0-511-18425-5
- 0-511-16592-7
- 0-511-16397-5
- 0-511-31282-2
- 0-511-75603-8
- 0-511-16477-7
- OCLC:
- 437163510
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