Charles S. Maier

A specialist in European and international history, Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University.

Books in order of publication:

Books

The Origins of the Cold War and contemporary Europe (New York, 1978)

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1975. Reprinted with new prefaces, 1988 and 2015.

In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987)

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)

Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)

Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)

Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; also in Worlds Connected, Emily Rosenberg, ed. Harvard University Press, 2012)

Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)

The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023)