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

• Autore: Maier Charles S
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , [1975]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015; ©[1975]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (673 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9/4/051
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Economic conditions 1918-1945; Europe Politics and government 1918-1945
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 595-607.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Recasting bourgeois Europe
• ISBN: 1-283-33969-2; 9786613339690; 1-4008-2030-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247891303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno