War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited

ISBN-10
1107145066
ISBN-13
9781107145061
Category
Europe
Pages
538
Language
English
Published
2003
Author
Sandra Halperin

Description

Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944), however, it argues that Polanyi's analysis is.

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