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What they saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb / James L. Nolan, Jr.

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Nolan, James L., Jr.
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New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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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.
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ISBN
9781316551066 (electronic bk.)
1316551067 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2016
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Paterno Libraries Endowment
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