Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930, and The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975.

the book provides a great deal of statistical information likely to be useful for sociologists. It covers a wide array of topics, and different chapters could be useful as a starting point to researchers interested in these various topics.

• Introduction1. The Economy2. Health Care3. The Rest of the Welfare State4. Crime5. More Broadly6. Education and the Higher Pursuits7. The Environment8. Civil Society9. Nationalism10. Religion and Science11. Assimilation12. Lumping and Splitting13. A Meeting of the Twain? 14. Separated at Birth? 15. The Post-Facto State16. How the West Was One17. Acorn and Oak

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930, and The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975.

the book provides a great deal of statistical information likely to be useful for sociologists. It covers a wide array of topics, and different chapters could be useful as a starting point to researchers interested in these various topics.

• Introduction1. The Economy2. Health Care3. The Rest of the Welfare State4. Crime5. More Broadly6. Education and the Higher Pursuits7. The Environment8. Civil Society9. Nationalism10. Religion and Science11. Assimilation12. Lumping and Splitting13. A Meeting of the Twain? 14. Separated at Birth? 15. The Post-Facto State16. How the West Was One17. Acorn and Oak

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930, and The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975.

the book provides a great deal of statistical information likely to be useful for sociologists. It covers a wide array of topics, and different chapters could be useful as a starting point to researchers interested in these various topics.

• Introduction1. The Economy2. Health Care3. The Rest of the Welfare State4. Crime5. More Broadly6. Education and the Higher Pursuits7. The Environment8. Civil Society9. Nationalism10. Religion and Science11. Assimilation12. Lumping and Splitting13. A Meeting of the Twain? 14. Separated at Birth? 15. The Post-Facto State16. How the West Was One17. Acorn and Oak