Facing Total War: German Society, 1914-1918

Politics & Social Sciences

Kocka, Jürgen

Anthropology

Harvard University Press

A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today’s globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history.
Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies.
Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.

Capitalism: A Short History

Business & Money

Economics

Princeton University Press

White Collar Workers in America 1890-1940: A Social-Political History in International Perspective (SSTCH)

Sage Publications

Sociology

Text: English, German (translation)

Facing total war: German society, 1914-1918

Berg

Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)

In this rich and thought-provoking work, Jürgen Kocka focuses his analytic lens on Germany’s long twentieth century, from the empire to the present. He begins by establishing the semantic problematic in the German term Bürgertum and presenting an analytical survey of German civil society over the past 120 years. He then offers a fascinating social history of the GDR, along with a comparative analysis of the East German dictatorship and that of the Third Reich. He further compares Germany’s “two dictatorships” in regard to historical memory, post-regime justice, and historiography before and after reunification. Kocka concludes with a wonderfully expansive view of historical interpretation and even argues for the place of trendiness and fashion in the profession.

Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)

History

Americas

Brandeis University Press

Format Paperback Subject Social Sciences Anthropology Publisher Scholarly Publishing Office U of MI

Facing Total War: German Society, 1914-1918 (ACLS History E-Book Project)

Europe

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Germany’s Struggle for Modernity: Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1780-1918

Berghahn, Volker

Berghahn Books

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