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Capital, the state, and war : class conflict and geopolitics in the thirty years' crisis, 1914-1945 / Alexander Anievas.

By: Anievas, Alexander [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: ConfigurationsCritical studies of world politics: Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2017Description: xii, 324 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780472072118; 9780472052110.Subject(s): Capitalism -- History -- 20th century | Capitalism -- Social aspects | International economic relations -- History -- 20th century | World politics -- 1900-1945 | Geopolitics -- History -- 20th century | Social conflict -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes | World War, 1939-1945 -- CausesDDC classification: 327.09041 Other classification: POL011010 Also issued online.Summary: "The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945. Anievas presents the Thirty Years' Crisis as a result of the development of global capitalism with all its destabilizing social and geopolitical consequences, particularly the intertwined and co-constitutive nature of imperial rivalries, social revolutions, and anti-colonial struggles. Building on the theory of uneven and combined development, he unites geopolitical and sociological explanations into a single framework, thereby circumventing the analytical stalemate between primacy of domestic politics and primacy of foreign policy approaches"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945. Anievas presents the Thirty Years' Crisis as a result of the development of global capitalism with all its destabilizing social and geopolitical consequences, particularly the intertwined and co-constitutive nature of imperial rivalries, social revolutions, and anti-colonial struggles. Building on the theory of uneven and combined development, he unites geopolitical and sociological explanations into a single framework, thereby circumventing the analytical stalemate between primacy of domestic politics and primacy of foreign policy approaches"--

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