This second volume of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century–liberalism, Marxism, mass society, pluralism, and elitism–in accounting…

Challenging the traditional belief that Hitler’s supporters were largely from the lower middle class, Richard F. Hamilton analyzes Nazi electoral successes by turning to previously untapped sources–urban voting records. This…

Discusses and examines the arguments traditionally put forward as explanations for the First World War. The book concludes with an alternative proposition for explaining the War, based on elites and…

Evaluates the views of social critics, neo-conservatives, neo-Marxists, post-industrialists and the theorists of the little man, who puport to describe the nature, social conditions, outlooks, and motivations of the American…