1. Introduction; I: THE ORIGINS; 2. Ties That Would Divide: Liberal-Labor Alliances in Britain, France, and Switzerland before the War; 3. Cleavage Structures and the Failure of Liberal Movements in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe; 4. The Break with Liberalism and the Formation of Working-Class Movements; 5. The Organization of Workers: Liberal and Aliberal Societies Compared; II: THE OUTCOMES; 6. War, Crisis, and the Stabilization of the Liberal Order; 7. Narrowing the Aliberal Outcomes: Liberalism's Final Failure and the Irrelevance of Traditional Dictatorship
Summary
This work provides a sweeping historical analysis of the political development of Western Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Arguing that the evolution of most Western European nations into liberal democracies, social democracies, or fascist regimes was attributable to a discrete set of social class alliances, the author explores the origins and outcomes of the political development in the individual nations. In Britain, France, and Switzerland, countries with a unified middle class, liberal forces established political hegemony before World War I. By coopting considera
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Politics
Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-402) and index
