Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Pride, Patriotism, and the Mercantilist Spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont Discover America
- 2 Tocqueville and the Quandary of American Democracy
- 3 Agrarianism, Race, and the End of Romanticism: Weber in Early Twentieth-Century America
- 4 Weber on Sects, Schools, and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 5 A New Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street
- 6 Chestertonian Distributism and the Democratic Ideal
- 7 From Musha to New York: Qutb Encounters American Jahiliyya
- 8 Qutb's “Inquiring Eyes” in Colorado and California
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Pride, Patriotism, and the Mercantilist Spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont Discover America
- 2 Tocqueville and the Quandary of American Democracy
- 3 Agrarianism, Race, and the End of Romanticism: Weber in Early Twentieth-Century America
- 4 Weber on Sects, Schools, and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 5 A New Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street
- 6 Chestertonian Distributism and the Democratic Ideal
- 7 From Musha to New York: Qutb Encounters American Jahiliyya
- 8 Qutb's “Inquiring Eyes” in Colorado and California
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- What They Saw in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016