The relationship between democratization and war has recently sparked a lively debate. We
find that transitions from autocracy that become stalled prior to the establishment of coherent …

The conventional wisdom among human rights activists holds that a great deal of the ethnic
conflict in the world today is caused by propagandistic manipulations of public opinion …

Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture
from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the …

Prussia's social and political structure, institutions, and values were in many ways formative
for German history after 1871. After unification Prussia accounted for roughly two-thirds of …

This is the first scholarly biography of Heinrich BrÜning, chancellor of Germany from 1930 to
1932, and the last politican with a real chance to prevent the Nazi seizure of power. This …

Ellis Wasson offers one of the first comprehensive studies of the European ruling class
during the 19th and 20th centuries. Distilling a wealth of recent research, Wasson analyses …

Many accounts of German unification focus on war, diplomacy and Bismarck and on the
crucial ten years up to 1871. John Breuilly, in addition to paying attention to those issues …

In recent years historical research on Imperial Germany has called into question traditional
interpretations of this case at the same time that political science research on the “third …

The revolutionary movements in late tsarist Russia inspired a reaction by groups on the
right. Although these groups were ostensibly defending the status quo, they were in fact, as …

Between 1928 and 1932, the National Socialist movement transformed itself from an
insurgent fringe party into Germany's most potent political force. The most important factor in …