Charles S. Maier

Why Is Charles S. Maier Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Biography Maier served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, 1994-2001, and currently co-directs the Weatherhead Initiative in Global History. He taught at Duke University 1976-81 and has also held various visiting professorships in Europe. He was married from 1961 to 2013 to the late Pauline Maier, Professor at MIT and noted American historian. In 2017 he married Marjorie Anne Sa'adah, professor emerita of government at Dartmouth College. He has three children and eight grandchildren.

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Charles S. Maier's Published Works

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Published Works

The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Domestic Politics and War (1988) (364)
Society and Democracy in Germany. (1967) (343)
Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era (2000) (276)
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I (1976) (268)
The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II (1977) (225)
Between Taylorism and Technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s (1970) (204)
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (2006) (186)
The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability in Twentieth-Century Western Europe (1981) (157)
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010) (154)
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation (1986) (133)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Theory of Hegemonic War (1988) (109)
In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (1988) (108)
Recasting bourgeois Europe (1975) (107)
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997) (95)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (1989) (75)
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (2016) (70)
Democracy and Its Discontents (1994) (54)
Changing boundaries of the political : essays on the evolving balance between the state and society, public and private in Europe (1987) (49)
Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (2014) (40)
Transformations of Territoriality 1600-2000 (2006) (38)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of War: Structural Theories (1989) (35)
A Nation among Nations: America's Place in World History (2007) (30)
The Marshall Plan and Germany : West German development within the framework of the European Recovery Program (1991) (25)
Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances: “Being there”: place, territory, and identity (2007) (22)
XIII. Doing History, Doing Justice: The Narrative of the Historian and of the Truth Commission (2000) (22)
The World Economy and the Cold War in the Middle of the Twentieth Century (2011) (20)
Irresistible empire (2007) (19)
The Marshall Plan: A Retrospective (1984) (18)
In search of stability: The politics of inflation in the twentieth century (1988) (17)
The politics of inflation and economic stagnation : theoretical approaches and international case studies (1987) (17)
The Cold War in Europe (1991) (17)
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation: Theoretical Approaches and International Case Studies (1986) (16)
The Army and the Fifth Republic. (1969) (16)
“Malaise”:: The Crisis of Capitalism in the 1970s (2010) (16)
The Marshall Plan and Germany (1991) (15)
Changing Boundaries of the Political: The politics of time: changing paradigms of collective time and private time in the modern era (1987) (15)
In search of stability: “Fictitious bonds … of wealth and law”: on the theory and practice of interest representation (1988) (15)
The Collapse of Communism: Approaches for a Future History (1991) (14)
Interchange: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War (2011) (13)
In search of stability: The politics of productivity: foundations of American international economic policy after World War II (1988) (13)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of the Thirty Years' War (1988) (13)
The Cold War in Europe : era of a divided continent (1996) (12)
The Truman presidency: Alliance and autonomy: European identity and U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Truman years (1989) (12)
Has Liberalism Failed Women?: Assuring Equal Representation In Europe and The United States (2015) (10)
Once Within Borders (2016) (9)
The Marshall Plan and the Division of Europe (2005) (8)
The Culture of Culture: Toward a German Variant of Performative Democracy (2002) (8)
Empire Falls: Washington May Be Imperious, but It Is Not Imperial (2006) (8)
Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II (2005) (8)
The Truth about the Treaties? (1979) (7)
The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability: Reply (1981) (7)
Two Sorts of Crisis? The “long” 1970s in the West and the East (2004) (6)
The thirteenth of May: the advent of De Gaulle's Republic (1968) (6)
Inflation and Stabilization in the Wake of the Two World Wars: Comparative Strategies and Sacrifices (1984) (6)
Doing History, Doing Justice: The Historian and the Truth Commission (2000) (6)
Accounting for the Achievements of Capitalism: Alfred Chandler's Business History (1993) (6)
The Search for Stability (2021) (5)
The Vulnerabilities of Interwar Germany (1984) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Wargames: 1914–1919 (1988) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism (1988) (5)
Has Liberalism Failed Women (2001) (5)
What Have We Learned since 1989? (2009) (4)
The Origins of the Cold War and Contemporary Europe (1978) (4)
In search of stability: The economics of Fascism and Nazism (1988) (4)
15. Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations (2020) (3)
In search of stability: Society as factory (1988) (3)
Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe. (1988) (3)
Finance and Defense: Implications of Military Integration 1950–1952 (1992) (3)
The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1989 (2010) (3)
'Songs of a Prisoner': Luigi Dallapiccola and the Politics of Voice under Fascism (2004) (3)
The Postwar Social Contract: Comment (1996) (3)
Smallpox Eradication and the Rise of Global Governance (2010) (3)
Who Divided Germany (1998) (2)
Between Surprise and Social Science (2009) (2)
The Cold War as an era of imperial rivalry (2014) (2)
II RELIGIOUS VALUES AT HARVARD (1960) (2)
Whose Mitteleuropa? Central Europe between Memory and Obsolescence (2021) (2)
Some Recent Studies of Fascism (1976) (2)
CHAPTER 17. Modern Europe in American Historical Writing (1999) (2)
Changing Boundaries of the Political: Introduction (1987) (2)
Introduction: New Perspectives on the Use of Parity Mandates and Quotas to Guarantee Equality between Men and Women (2001) (2)
America Among Empires? Imperial Analogues and Imperial Syndrome (2007) (2)
The Unmasterable Past. Holocaust and German National Identity. (1992) (2)
Austria between memory and obsolescence (1993) (2)
In search of stability: Ideology and economics from World War I to midcentury (1988) (1)
Empires or Nations? 1918, 1945, 1989… (2002) (1)
Empire’s Past . . . Empire’s Future (2009) (1)
Analog of Empire: Reflections on U.S. Ascendancy (2007) (1)
City on a Hill (2018) (1)
Mahler’s Theater: (2020) (1)
Dark Power: Globalization, Inequality, and Conflict (2007) (1)
In search of stability: Introduction: Political economy and history (1988) (1)
Empire Discourses : The »American Empire« in Decline ? (2009) (1)
Economic Consequences of the Peace, Social Consequences of the War (2009) (1)
The Rise Of The Nazi Regime (2019) (1)
Thucydides, Alliance Politics, and Great Power Conflict (2014) (1)
A NOTE ON SOURCES (1999) (0)
Contending with Hitler: The German Resistance in Comparative Perspective (1992) (0)
The moi decade (1995) (0)
Prologue: Questions at the Outset (2006) (0)
After Communism: Rethinking the Histories of the Postwar Epoch* (2008) (0)
Chapter 1: The Dimensions of Social Conflict at the End of World War I (2011) (0)
Als wär’ es ein Stuck von uns . . . German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany (2010) (0)
Henze, Treichel, and the aesthetics of antifascism (2005) (0)
Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR (2017) (0)
4. Frontiers and Forces in the Cold War (2006) (0)
THE BRITISH STATE IN THE YEARS WHICH FOLLOWED THE FIRST WORLD WAR In Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his study of the responses of the major States of Western Europe to the conditions created by the First World War, (2008) (0)
3. Contesting the Countryside (2016) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
In the Museum of Austrian History (2016) (0)
Chapter Three. The Autumn Upheaval (1999) (0)
The Unmasterable past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1989) (0)
Afterword: The Vase of Uruk (2006) (0)
INO volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
2. International Associationalism: The Social and Political Premises of Peacemaking After 1917 and 1945 (2017) (0)
Comments (2004) (0)
Radicalism in the Contemporary Age (2019) (0)
Governance & Anti-governance (2016) (0)
In search of stability: Conclusion: why stability? (1988) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
5. An Empire of Production (2006) (0)
1. What Is an Empire (2006) (0)
How Did Germany Go Right? (2018) (0)
Chapter Five. Unification (1999) (0)
The Travails of Unification (2011) (0)
Lessons from History? German Economic Experiences and the Crisis of the Euro (2012) (0)
Comment on Andrei Markovits "The Other 'American Exceptionalism'" (1988) (0)
INO volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
Chapter 4: The Politics of Reparation (2011) (0)
Reflections, Reactions, Conclusions: The Doppelgänger (2020) (0)
6. From Fate to Function: The Twentieth Century and After (2016) (0)
Introduction: Highland Park and Hiroshima (2006) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
HIST E-1890 WORLD WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: WORLD WAR II (2009) (0)
Franklin L. Ford (2008) (0)
Chapter 6: Between Nationalism and Corporatism: The Ruhr Conflict (2011) (0)
One hundred years of strife (1997) (0)
Response to Reviewers of Among Empires (2007) (0)
The Austrian State Treaty and the Cold War (2021) (0)
5. “ An Invincible Force”: Railroads, Continents, and Colonies (2016) (0)
Demos and Nation: Misplacing the Dilemmas of the European Union--In Memory of Stanley Hoffmann (2017) (0)
“Barrier or Leveler”? Comparative Perspectives on the Social Functions of Education (1970) (0)
Christianity and Conviction: Gustav Mahler and the Meanings of Jewish Conversion in Central Europe (2012) (0)
1. THE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AT THE END OF WORLD WAR I (2016) (0)
La democracia desde la revolución francesa (1995) (0)
The Right to Sell and Leave (2019) (0)
Chapter Four. Protagonists of the Transition (1999) (0)
Introduction: A History of Political Space (2016) (0)
5. THE ATTRITION OF THE LIBERAL REGIME IN ITALY (2016) (0)
4. THE POLITICS OF REPARATION (2016) (0)
Introduction: The Imperial Arena (2006) (0)
Europe on Edge: Ruptures and Resilience in European Capitalism (2016) (0)
Global History for an Era of Globalization: An Introduction (2011) (0)
INO volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
INTRODUCTION: FROM BOURGEOIS TO CORPORATIST EUROPE (2011) (0)
What They Think of Us (2007) (0)
8. ACHIEVING STABILITY (2016) (0)
3. THE LIMITS OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING (2016) (0)
On statelessness: a modern history, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum (2022) (0)
Chapter 5: The Attrition of the Liberal Regime in Italy (2011) (0)
Biographical Memoirs: Franklin L. Ford (2008) (0)
Chapter One. Losing Faith (1999) (0)
Preface (1999) (0)
6. BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND CORPORATISM: THE RUHR CONFLICT (2016) (0)
The 1920s—Consolation or Warning?: A Response to David Montgomery (1987) (0)
4. Projects for an Agrarian Regime (1770–1890) (2016) (0)
Chapter 2: Politics among the Victors: Issues and Elections (2011) (0)
Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George. Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time (1983) (0)
INO volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
Preface to the 1988 Reprinting (2011) (0)
‘Bliss was it in that Dawn’ … or was it? (2020) (0)
‘Once more the storm is howling’ (2018) (0)
Regulating Foreign Investment: Europe and the U.S. to International Shocks: Japan and the U.S. Issue Linkages in Multilateral Trade Negotiations (2009) (0)
1. Spaces of Empire (1500–1650) (2016) (0)
Noi figli della Guerra Fredda... : We Children of the Cold War : An Implicit Dialogue on History (2012) (0)
Democratic Dangers Beyond Borders (2017) (0)
Preface to the 2016 Reprinting (2016) (0)
3. “Call It Peace” (2006) (0)
Chapter 8: Achieving Stability (2011) (0)
Harriman and the Poles (1994) (0)
Conclusion: Still within Borders? (2016) (0)
Chapter Two. The Economic Collapse (1999) (0)
History and the Monetarist Controversy@@@Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? (1977) (0)
In search of stability: Collective preferences and public outcomes (1988) (0)
Thirty Years After: The End of European Communism in Historical Perspective (2017) (0)
Maiken Umbach. German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890–1924. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 253. $99.00 (2011) (0)
Conclusion: The Structure and Limits of Stability (2011) (0)
Epilogue. Wrapped Reichstag, 1995 (1999) (0)
The Presence of the Superpowers in Europe (1947–54): An Overview (1995) (0)
Chapter 3: The Limits of Economic Restructuring (2011) (0)
Chapter Six. Anschluss and Melancholy (1999) (0)
Defining the Internal Borders of the Empire: Conceptions of Territory during the Process of Independence. Brazil, 1820 Decade (2022) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Chapter 1: “The World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Crisis within Imperialism,” Chapter 2: “Stabilization, Crisis, and the Second World War,” and Chapter 3: “The End of Empire and the Transformations of the International System" (2008) (0)
2. POLITICS AMONG THE VICTORS: ISSUES AND ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER 1919 (2016) (0)
West Germany as Subject…and Object (1978) (0)
Recounting, retrieving, rereading: approaches to the history of genocide (2014) (0)
The work of Paul Ginsborg (2004) (0)
2. Spaces of States (1550–1700) (2016) (0)
Beyond Revolution? Resistance and Vulnerability to Radicalism in Advanced Western Societies (2019) (0)
Recasting Bourgeois Europe, c.1975, 40th anniversary edition with new preface (2015) (0)
Privileged Partners: The Atlantic Relationship at the End of the Bush Regime (2008) (0)
5. Production and Rehabilitation: The Economic Bases for American Sponsorship of West Germany in the Postwar Atlantic Community (1990) (0)
Return to Rome: Half a Century of American Historiography in Light of the 1955 Congress for International Historical Studies (2008) (0)
6. An Empire of Consumption (2006) (0)
Podcast: Charles S. Maier of Harvard delivers 2007 Harry C. Howard Lecture (2007) (0)
Chapter 7: Majorities without Mandates: Issues and Elections in the Spring of 1924 (2011) (0)

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