What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb

What they saw in America Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb

Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America -- Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy -- Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America -- Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism -- A new...

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1. Verfasser: Nolan, James L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2016
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Tocqueville, Alexis de > Political and social views > Weber, Max > Chesterton, G. K > Quṭb, Sayyid > National characteristics, American > History > Chesterton, G. K. > Quṭb, Saiyid > Amerikabild
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Zusammenfassung:Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America -- Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy -- Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America -- Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism -- A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street -- Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal -- From musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya -- Qutb's "inquiring eyes" in Colorado and California
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index
Beschreibung:x, 299 Seiten
23 cm
ISBN:9781316601594
978-1-316-60159-4
9781107146617
978-1-107-14661-7