Free Download Charles S. Maier, Stephen Caffrey (Narrator), "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"
English | ASIN: B0CRJY5DN4 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~25:03:00 | 674 MB
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 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. Charles S. Maier looks to the political and economic impulses that propelled societies through a century when territorial states and transnational forces both claimed power, engaging sometimes as rivals and sometimes as allies. Maier focuses on recurring institutional constellations: project-states including both democracies and dictatorships; new forms of imperial domination; global networks of finance; and the international associations, foundations, and NGOs that tried to shape public life.
