The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Charles S Maier

A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses--ethnic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674290143
• ISBN13: 9780674290143
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"