Charles S Maier
Biographic Data
| ID | 253376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles S Maier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles S |
| FAMILY NAME | Maier |
| SIGNATURE | MAIER C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Out of Austria: Natasha Wheatley’s Staatenlehre
Making a Modern Political Order: The Problem of the Nation State
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer
Kertzer’s superbly documented book tells a dispiriting story—familiar in its basic outlines but augmented by the recent opening of Pope Pius XII’s personal archives—about the Pontiff’s silences in the face of Nazi conquests and the Holocaust and Italian fascist collaboration with German policies during World War II. As is well known, the pope refused to utter any criticism of Hitler’s war, claiming publicly that the Catholic Church could not legi…
On statelessness: A modern history, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum
The Austrian State Treaty and the Cold War
November 01 2021 The Austrian State Treaty and the Cold War: Contending Perspectives Charles S. Maier, Charles S. Maier Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University and has been on the Harvard faculty for more than fifty years. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Günter Bischof, Günter Bischof Günter Bischof is the University Research and Marshall Plan Professor of…
‘Bliss was it in that Dawn’ … or was it
Paul Betts rightly observes that 1989 ‘isn’t what it used to be’.1 His recent essay ‘1989 at Thirty’ captures the melancholy many observers feel as they recall what once seemed the exhilarating developments that saw the communist regimes in eastern Europe collapse at the end of the 1980s, epitomized in the media by the opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Betts’s analysis seeks out the roots of populist nationalism in the national energ…
The Right to Sell and Leave
Quinn Slobodian claims in this bold book, written with brio and brilliance, that neoliberalism is misunderstood if it is seen merely as a reliance on markets to replace politics. Instead neoliberals seek a political order on a global scale strong enough to resist the democratic pressures for egalitarian economic redistribution that arise within nation-states. Underlying the doctrines that he traces from the 1920s through the 1970s and beyond is t…
City on a Hill?”
There are not many states that have legislated differential degrees of citizenship and rights based on allegedly racial grounds, at least after the ending of chattel slavery. Three that stand out are the United States, the Union (later Republic) of South Africa, and the Third Reich. The legal historian James Whitman has written an eye-opening study of the influence of the American states’ legalized racial disabilities (segregated public facilitie…
How Did Germany Go Right
To set a single agenda for German history would be a foolhardy task, but let us begin with a major generalization about the long-term development of the field. Two mega-issues have dominated the historiography and debates for a century or more, standing on the path of historical research like some huge boulders that can not be moved or even circumvented. The first concerns how the German communities of Central Europe had constructed a nation-stat…
Demos and Nation: Misplacing the Dilemmas of the European Union--In Memory of Stanley Hoffmann
“Demos and Nation,” written in homage to the memory of Stanley Hoffmann, critically considers the “no-demos” theory that argues the European Union is necessarily limited in its scope and loyalty because supposedly any authentic democratic political union must rest on a “people” or “demos,” which the EU lacks. There is no European demos, so the proponents argue; only nation-states possess this communal glue. I argue that, first, European history s…
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S…
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European na…
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
The author, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published this, his first book, in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, the book provides a comparative history of three European nations—France, Germany, …
Thucydides, Alliance Politics, and Great Power Conflict
Entangling alliances were crucial to the outbreak of war in 1914 Germany and England had few military rivalries after Britain won the Dreadnought race and should have been able to avoid facing each other. Yet they were drawn in by weaker allies. In future the same could happen to China and the United States.
Thucydides, Alliance Politics, and Great Power Conflict
Hans-Ulrich Wehler: In Memoriam
Recounting, retrieving, rereading: Approaches to the History of Genocide
This essay, delivered at a conference that commemorated Primo Levi, asks about the continuing status of witnesses' testimony about the Holocaust and genocidal murder as their generation disappears. It finds their particular contribution to lie less in what they report than their claim to moral authenticity, as confirmed by their own suffering; and it points out the problematic aspects of subjective identification this may raise, especially by com…
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I
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"Als wär' es ein Stück von uns …"; German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany
This essay looks at postunification Germany through the pages of German Politics and Society. The articles published during this period reveal the evolution of intellectuals' understanding of the unified country—concerns that mirrored changes in social, political, and cultural reality. Of course, academics are beholden to their own histories and Weltanschauung, a fact that produced, at times, prescient, sometimes fragmentary, and sometimes alarmi…
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The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a New Preface
What Have We Learned since 1989
This paper is a frankly subjective effort to return to questions posed about the nature of communist rule and the sudden collapse of communism in the light of the intervening two decades. It asks, first, why feelings of elation about the transformations of 1989 faded relatively quickly, second, why the communist system collapsed so clamorously, and, third, how might we best describe its earlier operation. The paper suggests that there will always…
Irresistible empire
A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History
Journal Article A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History Get access A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History. By Bender Thomas. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. xii, 368 pp. $26.00, isbn0-8090-9527-0.) Charles S. Maier Charles S. Maier Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 1, June 2007, Pages 2…
Response to Reviewers of Among Empires
Response to Reviewers of Among Empires Charles S. Maier I am grateful to the reviewers of Among Empires for the attention they have paid to this book and particularly gratified that it evoked such positive reactions from Carlos Noreña and Thomas Metcalf. Professor Mary Renda is more critical but she has obviously read the argumentation closely and deserves a considered response. Taken together, the reviews make some important points in a collegia…
The politics of productivity: Foundations of American international economic policy after World War II
The years immediately after World War II provided American policy makers with a unique opportunity to help shape the international economic order for a generation to come. United States objectives are usually described in terms of enlightened idealism or capitalist expansionism. But much of the way policy makers envisaged international economic reconstruction derived from the ambivalent way in which domestic economic conflict had been resolved be…
Between Taylorism and Technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
The author, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published this, his first book, in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, the book provides a comparative history of three European nations—France, Germany, …
The Politics of inflation and economic stagnation: Theoretical Approaches and International Case Studies
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany
Against the backdrop of one of the great transformations of our century, the sudden and unexpected fall of communism as a ruling system, Charles Maier recounts the history and demise of East Germany. Dissolution is his poignant, analytically provocative account of the decline and fall of the late German Democratic Republic. This book explains the powerful causes for the disintegration of German communism as it constructs the complex history of th…
The unmasterable past: History, holocaust, and German national identity
Democracy and Its Discontents
How should one make sense of the malaise that currently sours public opinion in the countries of Europe, in Japan and North Amer ica? It reveals itself most saliently in tremendous electoral volatility as political parties are deserted for new formations and leaders. Con sider the disintegration of Japan's Liberal Democrats; the obliteration of Canada's Progressive Conservatives; the populist appeal of Ross Perot; the attrition of the mainstream …
The Culture of Culture: Toward a German Variant of Performative Democracy
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the German literary critic, recalls in his recent memoirs that at age ten, when he set out from his small town in Poland, his teacher said with tears in her eyes, “Mein Sohn, Du fährst in das Land der Kultur.” Elias Canetti recalled in the first volume of his memoir—The Tongue Set Free—how when he was age eight, his mother, recently widowed, found fulfillment at the Burgtheater and left Manchester to take up residence in Vie…
The Vulnerabilities of Interwar Germany
Society and Democracy in Germany
Accounting for the Achievements of Capitalism: Alfred Chandler's Business History Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism . Alfred D. Chandler , Takashi Hikino
The Collapse of Communism: Approaches for a Future History
Journal Article The Collapse of Communism: Approaches for a Future History Get access Charles S. Maier Charles S. Maier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 34–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.34 Published: 01 March 1991
The Origins of the Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Let me begin with what is generally meant by the War. The term was coined in 1947 by the American presidential adviser, Bernard Barueh, and subsequently popularized by the late Walter Lippmann–something that Maier does not even care to mention. The Cold War denotes a state of extreme hostility in East/West relations as manifested in the series of psychological, economic, political, and subversive activities carried out by both sides, but short of…
Hans-Ulrich Wehler: In Memoriam
Empire Falls: Washington May Be Imperious, but It Is Not Imperial
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany
The Postwar Social Contract: Comment
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Austria between memory and obsolescence
American Visions and British Interests: Hogan's Marshall Plan
The Truth about the Treaties
Society and Democracy in Germany
Between Taylorism and Technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s
"Barrier or Leveler"? Comparative Perspectives on the Social Functions of Education
Organisierter Kapitalismus: Voraussetzungen und Anfänge
Scientist at the White House: The Private Diary of President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science and Technology
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I
Some Recent Studies of Fascism
The politics of productivity: Foundations of American international economic policy after World War II
The years immediately after World War II provided American policy makers with a unique opportunity to help shape the international economic order for a generation to come. United States objectives are usually described in terms of enlightened idealism or capitalist expansionism. But much of the way policy makers envisaged international economic reconstruction derived from the ambivalent way in which domestic economic conflict had been resolved be…
History and the Monetarist Controversy
West Germany as Subject…and Object
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The Origins of the Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Let me begin with what is generally meant by the War. The term was coined in 1947 by the American presidential adviser, Bernard Barueh, and subsequently popularized by the late Walter Lippmann–something that Maier does not even care to mention. The Cold War denotes a state of extreme hostility in East/West relations as manifested in the series of psychological, economic, political, and subversive activities carried out by both sides, but short of…
The Truth about the Treaties
The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability in Twentieth-Century Western Europe
Taylor assured his listeners, "Nobody in Europe believes in the American way of life-that is, in private enterprise; or rather those who believe in it are a defeated party and a party which seems to have no more future than the Jacobites in England after 1688."I Taylor proved to be wrong, or at least premature, about the end of private enterprise.The question here is why, at least in Western Europe, there was less transformation than he envisaged…
[The Two Postwar Eras]: Reply
The Vulnerabilities of Interwar Germany
The Politics of inflation and economic stagnation: Theoretical Approaches and International Case Studies
L'apres-guerre en Italie Un aggiornamento de l'historiographie marxiste
Charles S. Maier, L'après-guerre en Italie Un aggiornamento de l'historiographie marxiste, Le Mouvement social, No. 134, Les Nationalisations d'Après-Guerre en Europe Occidentale (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 159-166
Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe
A new understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since the 1960s.
The 1920s—Consolation or Warning: A Response to David Montgomery
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The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation: Theoretical Approaches and International Case Studies
The inflation of the 1970s represented the greatest peacetime disruption of the Western economies since the Depression. Even as inflation receded, the recession in its wake brought more joblessness than at any time since the 1930s. The governments of industrialized nations found that the economic policies they had developed since World War II no longer assured price stability or high employment. What are the lessons of over a decade of economic d…
The unmasterable past: History, holocaust, and German national identity
Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe
Wargames: 1914-1919
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is not an impossibility. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the pro…
In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy
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