Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded ...

Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that ...

Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpecte...

The chapters in this volume reconsider fundamental premises about state and society in advanced c...

In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Wes...

This investigation of the political in Europe since the 1960s newly illuminates advanced industri...

In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Wes...

This investigation of the political in Europe since the 1960s newly illuminates advanced industri...

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: ...

Maier examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the U.S. shares their traits ...

A compelling historiographic study of the Rape of Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-19...

Recasting Bourgeois Europe accomplished two major historiographical goals simultaneously. First, ...