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Charles S Maier

Charles S Maier teaches history at Harvard University. His books include In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Harvard University Press, 1988), Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton University Press, 1997), and Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Harvard University Press, 2006).

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The intoxications of history

Francis Fukuyama's welcome revision of his argument leaves its homogenising, simplifying impulses untouched. Charles S Maier is unpersuaded.