Nolan, James L. Jr.
What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb - New York Cambridge University Press 2016 - x, 299 pages 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
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.
9781316601594
2015051003
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Weber, Max
Chesterton, G. K
Quṭb, Sayyid
National characteristics
History
Democracy
E169.1 / .N725 2016
973
What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb - New York Cambridge University Press 2016 - x, 299 pages 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
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.
9781316601594
2015051003
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Weber, Max
Chesterton, G. K
Quṭb, Sayyid
National characteristics
History
Democracy
E169.1 / .N725 2016
973