{"product_id":"9781400873708","title":"Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published \u003ci\u003eRecasting Bourgeois Europe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151731081456,"sku":"9781400873708","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400873708_p0.jpg?v=1763712768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400873708","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}