Jr James L. Nolan

What They Saw in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicling the visits of four important figures, this book will help Americans better understand themselves and how outsiders perceive them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781107146617
• ISBN-10: 1107146615
• Artikelnr.: 44825713

Autorenporträt

James L. Nolan, Jr is a Professor of Sociology at Williams College, Massachusetts. His teaching and research interests fall in the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change, and historical comparative sociology. His previous books include Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement (2009), Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement (2001), and The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End (1998). He is the recipient of several grants and awards including National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and a Fulbright scholarship. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, Loughborough University, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America
3. Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy
4. Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America
5. Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism
6. A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on main street
7. Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal
8. From Musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya
9. Qutb's 'inquiring eyes' in Colorado and California
10. Conclusion.