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The Project-State and Its Rivals

A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674290143

Publication Date: 05/16/2023

* Academic Trade

528 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 illus., 12 tables

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  • Preface
  • Introduction: History’s Protagonists
  • I. The Era of World Wars
    • 1. Paths to the Project-State
    • 2. The Promise of Resource Empires
    • 3. The Realm of Governance and the Web of Capital
  • II. Mid-Century Ambitions
    • 4. Projects for the Postwar: Nations, Empires, and Governance, 1940s–1960s
    • 5. Countervailing Power? Capital’s Projects and Their Limits, 1948–1960s
    • 6. Contesting the Postwar Order: Coal, Steel, Oil, and Dollars, 1950s–1970s
  • III. Contending Projects since the 1970s
    • 7. Deploying Governance
    • 8. Reinventions, 1978–1990s
    • 9. Convergences and Catastrophe: States, Governance, and Capital
    • 10. The Populist Assertion and the Return of Authoritarianism
  • Notes
  • Index

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