War and Social Change in Modern Europe The Great Transformation Revisited [Paperback]

This book focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1945.Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. The book focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1945., in part through a critique of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944). Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. The book focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1945., in part through a critique of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944). Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.Sandra Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures in the course of the development of industrial capitalism in Europe and the way the structures influenced state behavior and generated conflict. Halperin focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1944 (in part through a critique of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944)). Her account of the period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis, but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization.1. Confliclq