6 results for '"Charles S. Maier"'

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...

"Charles Maier is an historian whose writing talks both to political scientists and to lay readers no mean feat. Dissolution combines probing historical examination with disciplined and informed...

Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our...

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took...

" A] gripping look at a historical counternarrative that remains relevant and disturbing." -- Kirkus Reviews"Superb." -- Publishers WeeklyThe first definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in...

The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying...