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What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb / James L. Nolan, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nolan, James L., Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Political and social views.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de.
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920--Political and social views.
- Weber, Max.
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936--Political and social views.
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Quṭb, Sayyid, 1906-1966--Political and social views.
- Quṭb, Sayyid.
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
- Quṭb, Sayyid, 1906-1966.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107146617
- 1107146615
- 9781316601594
- 1316601595
- OCLC:
- 939909397
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