A House Divided [Hardcover]

Carl Strikwerda (Author), Xiangming Chen (Contributor), Bruce Cumings (Contributor), Gary Gereffi (Contributor), Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Contributor), Donald M. Nonini (Contributor), Neferti Xina M. Tadiar (Contributor), Rob Wilson (Contributor), Meredith Woo-Cumings (Contributor), Alexander Woodside (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998 | ISBN-10: 0847685268 | ISBN-13: 978-0847685264

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history. (D. G. Troyansky Choice April 1998 )

One of the finest books on Belgium to appear in many years. It will be of great interest to French and German historians as well as Belgian scholars. (Kenneth Barkin )

Strikwerda's insightful analyses of Belgian society and politics transform our understandings of the social and political history of the industrial age. (Donald Reid )

Strikwerda's authoritative study of the political emergence of the working class in Belgium makes a major contribution to the history of the beginnings of mass politics in the period between about 1870 and 1914. (Hugh Mcleod )

A model of patient historical reconstruction. (Kenneth D. McRae )

An original and thoroughly researched study . . . it fills a sizable gap in the history of modern Europe. (John Merriman )

A very important work, throughly researched. Strikwerda's book will be a must for labour scholars. (Jean Stengers English Historial Review )

Strikwerda does not retell the history of national movements or parties, but lokks locally to analyze institutions that embodied 'working class solidarity.' Strikwerda's meticulous research in primary sources, as well as the encyclopedic range of his secondary scholarship, allows him to build upon and often to counter effectively the story told by Belgian historians of their own labor movements. This book should interest European labor historians who too easily overlook Belgium. (Polasky, Janet Central European History, Vol. 32, No.2, 1999 )

...substantial and important study... Strikwerda's admirably wide-ranging book therefore deserves to be read by a wide audience. Equipped with a wealth of primary research, the author is at ease with Flemish Dutch sources... (Martin Conway French History, Vol.13, No.3, 1999 )

Carl Strikwerda has skillfully and thoroughly investigated the workers' movement in Ghent, Brussels, and Liège. He offers an innovative study of the mutual relationship of trade unionism, socialism, anarchism, Catholicism, and ethnicity in the period of emerging mass politics. . . . with admirable clarity, he has written a fine book, of great interest not only to Belgian scholars, but to all historians interested in the emergence of a pluralistic mass political life. (Lode Wills Journal Of Modern History )

About the Author

Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, and the coeditor, with Camille Guerin-Gonzales, of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1930.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 420 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847685268
• ISBN-13: 978-0847685264
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,921,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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