Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 420
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Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-0-8476-8527-1 • Paperback • August 1997 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
978-0-585-11414-9 • eBook • January 2000 • $57.50 • (£44.00)
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.
Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history.....
— D. G. Troyansky
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