Recasting Bourgeois Europe Author:Charles S. Maier This book examines a critical topic in the disciplining of forces of change: how political and economic elites retained their power following world war, economic dislocation, and domestic turmoil--stresses that seem to make social leveling inevitable. Charles S. Maier uses a comparative approach to study this phenomenon as it occurred in France,... more » Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I.« less