The world of nations
Christopher Lasch
The world of nations
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The world of nations
reflections on American history, politics, and culture.
[1st ed.]
Published
1973
by
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
in
New York
.
Written in English.
Table of Contents
| 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. | ||
| Alternatives to liberalism: Is revolution obsolete? The professional revolutionary: Erikson's Gandhi. After the New Left. Populism, socialism, and McGovernism. The "counter-culture." | ||
| The so-called post-industrial society: "Realism" as a critique of American diplomacy. Sources of the cold war: a historical controversy. The foreign policy eĢlite 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. | ||
| Notes and bibliography (p. 309-348). |
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
309.1/04 |
Library of Congress |
HN15.5 .L37 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
xii, 348, xiv p. |
Number of pages |
348 |
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