Foreword
Volker R. Berghahn
Preface to the First Edition
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Universal Historian and the Social Scientist
Chapter 2. The Champion of Nationalist Power Politics and Imperialism
Chapter 3. The Alternative to Marx: Dynamic Capitalism instead of Bureaucratic Socialism
Chapter 4. The Theory of the 'Three Pure Types of Legitimate Domination' and the Concept of Plebiscitarian Democracy
Chapter 5. A Liberal in Despair
Postcript
Volker R. Berghahn
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Wolfgang J. Mommsen (1930-2004) was Professor of History at the University of Düsseldorf and long-term Director of the German Historical Institute, London.