The world of nations
Subtitle: reflections on American history, politics, and culture.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Social history
Table of contents: title: The limits of liberal reform: Origins of the asylum. Two "kindred spirits": sorority and family in New England, 1839-1846. Divorce and the "decline of the family." The woman reformer's rebuke. The Mormon Utopia. The anti-imperialists, the Philippines, and the inequality of man. The moral and intellectual rehabilitation of the ruling class.; title: Alternatives to liberalism: Is revolution obsolete? The professional revolutionary: Erikson's Gandhi. After the New Left. Populism, socialism, and McGovernism. The "counter-culture."; title: The so-called post-industrial society: "Realism" as a critique of American diplomacy. Sources of the cold war: a historical controversy. The foreign policy élite and the war in Vietnam. Educational structures and cultural fragmentation. The social thought of Jacques Ellul. Birth, death, and technology: the limits of cultural laissez-faire.; title: Notes and bibliography (p. 309-348).