Project-State and Its Rivals
Project-State and Its Rivals 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. But if the twentieth…
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Project-State and Its Rivals
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. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses--ethnic nationalism, racist violence, and populist authoritarianism--revived?The Project-State and Its Rivals offers a radical alternative interpretation that takes us from the transforming challenges of the world wars to our own time. 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.
Maier looks to the political and economic impulses that propelled societies through a century when Instead of the traditional narrative of domestic politics and international relations, Charles S.