Cover -- Half-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- cold war social science -- karl polanyi's the great transformation -- rethinking the great transformation -- class and class agency -- european conflicts -- the organization of the study -- the plan of the book -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Conflicts and Change in World Politics -- industrial expansion in nineteenth-century europe: a critique of the polanyian view -- The "Liberal" State? -- The "Double Movement" of Industrial Capitalist Development -- conflicts and change: a class approach -- The Transformation of International Systems, States, and Societies: Two Perspectives -- Classes and Class Conflicts in Social Change -- Class Structure -- Europe's Pan-Regional Class Structure -- Class Agency -- Classes and States -- the great transformation, revisited -- Absolute Surplus Value Production and Imperialist Expansion -- Imperialism and Class -- Imperialism and War -- i SOCIAL FORCES, INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION, AND CONFLICT IN EUROPE'S NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARKET SYSTEM -- 2 The First Transformation -- the aristocratic-absolutist conflicts -- national political revolutions and the struggle for the state -- Nationalism and Imperialism -- the new balance of social power and the new european order -- The "Industrial Revolution"35 and the End of the Peace -- class conflicts, revolution, and war -- The Outcome of the Revolutionary Wars -- conclusions -- 3 Europe's Nineteenth-Century Industrial Expansion -- introduction -- the dual economy -- domestic markets -- Production for Export -- The Structure of Landholding -- The Concentration of the Industrial Sphere -- Absolute and Relative Surplus Value Production -- Home Investment -- Britain's Nineteenth-Century Economy -- the circuit of capital.

conclusions: dualism and "dependent development" in europe's nineteenth-century industrial expansion -- 4 Europe's Century of War, 1815-1914 -- conflict and dualistic industrial expansion -- labor conflicts -- enfranchisement conflicts -- ethnic conflicts -- imperialist conflicts -- conclusions -- 5 World War I and the Postwar Retrenchment -- imperialism and war in europe -- the post-world war i retrenchment -- the decline of the aristocracy -- labor -- democracy between the wars -- minorities -- imperialism in the interwar years -- conclusions -- ii THE INTERREGNUM -- 6 The Polarization of European Society, 1918-1939 -- liberal challenge, conservative response: the class compromise of 1848 -- the socialist threat -- world war i and mass mobilization -- postwar revolutionary currents and the fascist reaction -- The Rise of the Left -- The Rise of the Right -- Conflict between Left and Right -- the polarization of european society -- conclusions -- 7 The Politics of Appeasement and Counterrevolution -- british appeasement policies -- Territorial versus Social Orders -- The Peace Conference -- The Years 1920-1932 -- The Years 1933-1939 -- The "Phony War" and the Fall of France -- the "appeasers" -- Nazi Germany as a "Bulwark against Bolshevism" -- alternative interpretations -- conclusion -- iii THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION -- 8 The Post-World War II Order -- europe's post-world war ii social peace and prosperity -- social structure and development in postwar europe -- Social Structures -- Planning -- The Aims of Planning -- peace in europe -- Class and Enfranchisement Conflicts -- Ethnic and Nationalist Conflicts -- Imperialist Conflicts -- conclusions -- 9 The Great Transformation and the Eternal Return -- nineteenth-century industrial expansion: the "great transformation" revisited -- Polanyi's "Great Transformation".

Development and Underdevelopment Reconsidered -- globalization: the "great transformation" reversed? -- globalization redux? the incommensurability thesis examined -- The Incommensurability Thesis II: The Nature of Labor Today -- conclusions: lessons from history -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- a sample of class conflicts in europe, 1789-1945 -- a sample of ethnic conflicts in europe, 1789-1945 -- a sample of europe's imperialist conflicts, 1789-1945 -- Appendix 3 -- Works Cited -- Index.