Background
Maier, Charles Steven was born on February 23, 1939 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Louis and Muriel (Krailsheimer) Maier.
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In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the twentieth century. Successive essays ask: what ideological messages did American influence transmit to Europe after World War I, then again after World War II? Did Nazis and Italian fascists share an economic ideology or impose a unique economic system in the interwar period and during World War II? How do their accomplishments stack up comparatively against those of the liberal democracies? After 1945, what was the relationship between concepts of productivity and class division? How have the major experiences of twentieth-century inflation arisen out of class and interest-group rivalry? Most generally, what has been the representation of interests in capitalist political economies?
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(Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its f...)
Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.
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Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe 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. Arguing 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. The 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.
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Discusses how the Jewish Holocaust should be viewed as an historical event, and whether Germany can avoid a permanent stigma.
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Maier, Charles Steven was born on February 23, 1939 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Louis and Muriel (Krailsheimer) Maier.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1960; postgraduate, St. Anthony's College, Oxford, England, 1960-1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
Instructor history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1969;
assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1973;
lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1975;
visiting professor, U. Bielefeld, Federal Republic Germany, 1976;
associate professor of history, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1976-1979;
professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1979-1981;
professor of history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981-1991;
Krupp Foundation professor European studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1991;
director Center for European Studies, since 1994. Research fellow Lehrman Institute, New York City, 1975-1976. Member associate staff Brookings Institution, Washington, 1978-1984.
Member county Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Lausanne, Switzerland. Member joint committee on We. Europe Social Science Research Council and American Council Learned Socs., 1978-1984, chairman, 1979-1981.
Member German American Academy Council, Bonn, Germany & Washington, since 1998.
(Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its f...)
(In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Politi...)
( Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary s...)
(Discusses how the Jewish Holocaust should be viewed as an...)
(Discusses how the Jewish Holocaust should be viewed as an...)
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Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars (Washington). Member Council onFgn. Relations, American History Association, Society Italian History Studies, Society Historians of America Foreign Rels., American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Pauline Alice Rubbelke, June 17, 1961. Children— Andrea Nicole, Nicholas Winterer, Jessica Elizabeth Heine.