Mayer, Arno J.

The Persistence of The Old Regime: Europe to the Great War.

London, Croom Helm, 1981. 14,5 cm x 21,5 cm. XI, 368 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

Includes for example the following chapters: The Economies: The Endurance of Land, Agriculture, Manufacture / The Ruling Classes: The Bourgeoisie Defers / World-View: Social Darwinism, Nietzsche, War etc.

Arno Joseph Mayer (born June 19, 1926) is a Luxembourg-born American historian who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
Mayer was born in 1926 into a Jewish family that fled to the United States during the Nazi invasion of Luxembourg in May 1940. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1944; that same year he was drafted into the United States Army and served as an intelligence officer. He eventually became a morale officer for high-ranking German prisoners of war. He received his education at the City College of New York, the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and Yale University. He has been professor at Wesleyan University (1952–53), Brandeis University (1954–58) and Harvard University (1958–61). He has taught at Princeton University since 1961. (Wikipedia)

• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 28796AB

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