The book explores the complex interplay between idealism and terror during pivotal moments in history, specifically the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mayer critiques the contemporary dismissal of violence in favor of a belief in peaceful progress through human rights and capitalism. By revisiting these revolutions, he challenges the notion that violence is an outdated or ineffective means of enacting change, highlighting its significant role in shaping modern society.
Arno J. Mayer Libros
Arno Mayer es un historiador centrado en la Europa moderna, cuyo trabajo examina la tensión entre la rápida modernización económica y un orden político rezagado. Postula que "La Crisis de los Treinta Años" entre 1914 y 1945 surgió del choque entre una sociedad industrial dinámica y una rígida estructura de poder aristocrática. Mayer analiza cómo los esfuerzos de la aristocracia por mantener el poder llevaron a los principales conflictos del siglo XX. Sus análisis ofrecen una perspectiva distintiva sobre los orígenes de las Guerras Mundiales y el Holocausto.
In 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 the traumatic crises of the early twentieth century.
Der Krieg als Kreuzzug
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