The rise of the global imaginary : political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror / Manfred B. Steger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-305) and index.

Introduction : political ideologies and social imaginaries -- Ideology and revolution : from superscience to false consciousness -- The grand ideologies of the nineteenth century : British liberalism, French conservatism, and German socialism -- Twentieth-century totalitarianisms : Russian communism and German nazism -- Third-world liberationism and other Cold War isms : no end to ideology -- Market globalism and justice globalism in the roaring nineties -- Jihadist globalism versus imperial globalism : the great ideological struggle of the twenty-first century?