Charles S. Maier

Jun 17, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Charles S. Maier |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis

If journalists write history’s first draft, their efforts demand extensive revision to account for both new information and the consequences of events as they emerge. Trends only come into view over a much longer term. What seemed important at first often matters less than other things that bring larger patterns into focus.      Charles Maier builds on more than fifty years of scholarship to highlight important trends over the long twentieth century in The Project-State and Its Rivals.

Oct 25, 2023 | legrandcontinent.eu | Charles S. Maier

Autor Charles S. Maier Portada © NAYTHONS/SIPAFecha 25 de octubre de 2023Compartir Suscríbase para descargar este artículo en formato PDF →Acontecimientos arriba, estructuras abajo. ¿Es así? ¿Qué significa decir que ciertos cambios fundamentales se están produciendo en un nivel más profundo de causalidad histórica? ¿Las repentinas erupciones de violencia y guerra reflejan de algún modo transiciones socioeconómicas a largo plazo?

Aug 20, 2023 | americanaffairsjournal.org | Anton Jäger |Charles S. Maier

REVIEW ESSAYThe Project State and Its Rivals:A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuriesby Charles S. MaierHarvard University Press, 2023, 528 pages“We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century,” Charles Maier notes in an announcement for his new book The Project State and Its Rivals. Both haunting and tantalizing, the sentence’s past tense speaks to a profoundly contemporary mood.