The Persistence of the Old Regime keyword-suzy-hansen Williams presents a wholly original

Williams presents a wholly original interpretation of US history

the slave trade did not end in 1808

Therborn locates the major intellectual achievement of this tradition in the discovery of what he calls the 'ideological community' as an object of legitimate scientific enquiry

The First World War changed the map of Europe forever

The Persistence of the Old Regime keyword-suzy-hansen Williams presents a wholly originalIn 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