Description For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words, such as enlightenment, reason, rationality, modernization, and the most recent...
Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s Abstract The book explores the two opposite planetary perspectives on a new economic-political world order that the Brandt Commission and the multinational corporations developed in the...
Abstract It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner...
Edward Elgar July 2016. Co-authored with Lars Magnusson Abstract The book examines the three historical master tales of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, and questions their validity and relevance in today’s moment of global disorientation which...
Abstract Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace....
(Sweden's History 1830-1920). Stockholm: Norstedts 2012. 712 pp Abstract The focus of the book is on the emergence of the modern mass society under intensestruggles about how to shape the future. The period between 1830 and 1920 was the timebetween two major...
The hypocricy of democracy-through-market. London: Routledge 2010. Co-authored with Hagen Schulz-Forberg Abstract The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven Europeaneconomy and democracy and continues to be seen as a new step...
De förenade rikena Sverige och Norge 1814-1905 Union och demokrati. De Förenade rikena Sverige-Norge 1814-1905 (Union and Democracy. The United Kingdoms Sweden-Norway 1814-1905). Nora: Nya Doxa 2005. 734 pp. Ill. Norwegian translation Union og demokrati. Dei...
Metall och samhällsutveklingen, 1957-1976 Mellan medbestämmande och medarbetare: Metall och samhällsutveklingen, 1957-1976 (Between Co-determination and Co-worker: The Swedish Metal Workers' Federation and the Transformation of Society, 1957-1976). Metall,...
LO och den svenska modellen Mellan två fonder: LO och den svenska modellen. Atlas, Stockholm 1998. 339 pp. Abstract Mellan två fonder(Between two Funds)Bo Stråth Mellan två fonder deals with the emergence of the idea of a Swedish model and the role of the Swedish...
