Recasting bourgeois Europe : stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I / Charles S. Maier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maier, Charles S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (673 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1975]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history. Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first book, presented an unparalleled analysis of the crucial decade in Europe after 1918. Based on extensive archival research in each of the three countries, the book examined how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Recasting Bourgeois Europe accomplished two major historiographical goals simultaneously. First, Maier provided a comparative

Contents:

Cover; RECASTING BOURGEOIS EUROPE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface to the 1988 Reprinting; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Bourgeois to Corporatist Europe; PART I: THE CONTAINMENT OF THE LEFT; Chapter 1: The Dimensions of Social Conflict at the End of World War I; The Language of Class Anxiety (1900-1925); Elites-Resilient and Vulnerable; Business Accommodation in Germany and France; Chapter 2: Politics among the Victors: Issues and Electionsin November 1919; Bourgeois Cohesion in France; Bourgeois Disarray in Italy; Chapter 3: The Limits of Economic Restructuring

The Evolution of Leftist ObjectivesStrategies of Bourgeois Defense; The Coal Crisis; PART II: THE FAILURE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY CENTER; Chapter 4: The Politics of Reparation; The Wager on ""Fulfillment""; Reparation, Taxes, and the Demands of German Heavy Industry; The Bankruptcy of Moderation (1922); Chapter 5: The Attrition of the Liberal Regime in Italy; The Political Ecology of Fascism; From Giolitti to Mussolini: The Liberals' Search for Order; PART III: PATHS TOWARD CORPORATIST STABILITY; Chapter 6: Between Nationalism and Corporatism: The Ruhr Conflict

Inflation, Social Democracy, and the Challenge to Sovereignty in GermanyCorporatist Forces versus Poincare and Stresemann; Chapter 7: Majorities without Mandates: Issues and Elections in the Spring of 1924; The Limits of Mussolini's Majority; The Limits of Social Democratic Eclipse; The Limits of the Cartel des Gauches; Chapter 8: Achieving Stability; Inflation, Revaluation, and the Decomposition of Parliamentary Politics; Iron, Steel, and the International Organization of Capitalism; Corporative State in Corporatist Europe; Conclusion: The Structure and Limits of Stability; Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 595-607.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613339690

9781283339698

1283339692

9781400820306

1400820308

OCLC:

763158150