Charles S. Maier Bücher

Charles S. Maier hat erfolgreich die Herausforderung angenommen, die Ereignisse und Hintergründe, die zum Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus und der DDR führten, in einen umfassenden historischen Kontext einzuordnen: Ein äußerst profundes, auf breitem Quellen- und Archivstudium basierendes und überdies stilistisch brillantes Werk, das seinesgleichen sucht. '. ein bemerkenswerter, großer Wurf. Eine vergleichbare Studie dieses intellektuellen Zuschnitts gibt es auf dem deutschen Markt bisher nicht.' Christoph Kleßmann, Die Zeit '. eine wunderbar geschriebene und kenntnisreiche Darstellung des Zusammenbruchs des DDR-Regimes.' Paul Kennedy

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Exploring the dynamics of political and economic stability in twentieth-century Western industrial societies, this collection of essays examines the ideological influences of American power on Europe post-World Wars, the economic ideologies of Nazi and fascist regimes, and their comparative achievements against liberal democracies. It also investigates the interplay between productivity, class division, and inflation, alongside the representation of interests within capitalist political economies, offering a comprehensive analysis of historical political economy.

The essays in this collection analyze the actual contribution to postwar economic and political institutions of the Marshall Plan, shifting their attention away from its ideological role, which had been the subject of earlier research on the Recovery Program. These studies seek to measure the effect of that plan in terms of investment, growth, and production, replacing the earlier stress on political conflict with the more recent focus on the struggle for modernization motivated by a transnational vision of productivity, exchange, and economic integration. These essays also incorporate the results of examinations of newly opened archives and records.

Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators an empire. Others angrily reject the designation. This book addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity and examines the structure and impact of these states and asks whether the US shares their traits and behaviour.

In The Unmasterable Past, Charles Maier writes that controversy regarding German national history and identity substituted for constitutional debate at at the time of German reunification

At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Charles Maier explores the fitful evolution of territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples as a worldwide practice of human societies.