What they saw in America
Subtitle: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb
By: James L. Nolan Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781107146617; 9781316601594
Subjects: Political and social views; American National characteristics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America; title: Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy; title: Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America; title: Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism; title: A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street; title: Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal; title: From Musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya; title: Qutb's "inquiring eyes" in Colorado and California.