"This book asks how Germany – a country long thought to be irrevocably European and committed to a more social market economy – could have emerged at the center of neoliberal restructuring in Europe."

This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative...