Persistence of the Old Regime Europe to the Great War

Name: Persistence of the Old Regime Europe to the Great War
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ISBN: 9781844676354

ISBN-10: 1844676358

ISBN-13: 9781844676354

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Arno J. Mayer

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In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns upside down the vision of societies marked by modernization and forward-thrusting bourgeois and popular social classes, thereby transforming our understanding of the traumatic crises of the early twentieth century. The Verso World History Series : This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.99" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Economies: The Endurance of Land, Agriculture, Manufacture



The Ruling Classes: The Bourgeoisie Defers



Political Society and the Governing Classes: Linchpin of the Old Regime



Official High Cultures and the Avant-Gardes



World-View: Social Darwinism, Nietzsche, War


Bibliography


Index