The persistence of the old regime : Europe to the Great War /
"In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns...
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London ; Brooklyn :
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2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- - 1. The Economies: The Endurance of Land, Agriculture, Manufacture
- - 2. The Ruling Classes: The Bourgeoisie Defers
- - 3. Political Society and the Governing Classes: Linchpin of the Old Regime
- - 4. Official High Cultures and the Avant-Gardes
- - 5. World-View: Social Darwinism, Nietzsche, War