Recasting bourgeois Europe : stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I : with a new preface /
Charles S. Maier.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Preface to the 2016 Reprinting""; ""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 (1900â??1925)""; ""Elitesâ€?Resilient and Vulnerable""; ""Business Accommodation in Germany and France""; ""Chapter 2: Politics among the Victors: Issues and Elections in November 1919""; ""Bourgeois Cohesion in France"" ""Bourgeois Disarray in Italy""""Chapter 3: The Limits of Economic Restructuring""; ""The Evolution of Leftist Objectives""; ""Strategies of Bourgeois Defense""; ""The Coal Crisis""; ""PART II: THE FAILURE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY CENTER""; ""Chapter 4: The Politics of Reparation""; ""The Wager on ""FuIfillment""""; ""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 Ill: PATHS TOWARD CORPORATIST STABILITY""""Chapter 6: Between Nationalism and Corporatism: The Ruhr Conflict""; ""Inflation, Social Democracy, and the Challenge to Sovereignty in Germany""; ""Corporatist Forces versus PoincarÃ(c) 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""
Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representa.