The project-state and its rivals a new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- London Harvard University Press 2023
- xiii, 510p. : ill. and charts ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; and advocates of apolitical values, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this we discern the unfolding of our own troubled time