The Persistence of the Old Regime Paperback by Arno Mayer

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2010-08-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781844676354
• Item Weight: 517.1 grams
• Dimensions: 22.83 x 15.19 x 2.16 cm

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 upside down the vision of societies marked by modernization and forward-thrusting bourgeois and popular social classes, thereby transforming our understanding of the traumatic crises of the early twentieth century.

About the Author

Arno Mayer is Professor Emeritus of European History at Princeton University. His many books include The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions, Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel and Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The “Final Solution” in History.