China and the Bomb.Morton H. Halperin
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 28, Issue 2, p. 463-465
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 28, Issue 2, p. 463-465
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: International affairs, Volume 41, Issue 4, p. 704-704
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: American political science review, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 473-475
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Volume 56, Issue 2, p. 508-509
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The review of politics, Volume 22, p. 115-132
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Volume 22, Issue 1, p. 115-132
ISSN: 1748-6858
Itis a strange quirk of intellectual history that essays in the comprehensive interpretation of history seem to have become fashionable in inverse proportion to the decline of system-building in philosophy. Given this tendency, however, it is not surprising that philosophical historians have again focussed their attention upon America and that new systematic interpretations of American development have come to light. One such interpretation returns to the theories of one of the most praised but most neglected students of American society: Alexis de Tocqueville. According to this view the crucial fact in American history is the absence of a Europeanancien régime. The leading exponent of the "back to de Tocqueville" movement adverts to what might be called "the storybook truth about American history: that America was settled by men who fled from the feudal and clerical oppressions of the Old World." If this view is correct, "then the outstanding thing about the American community in Western history ought to be the nonexistence of those oppressions, or since the reaction against them was in the broadest sense liberal, that the American community is a liberal community." But in this sense of the term, "liberal" America was not the only "liberal" community, for America was not the only country which created a frontier existence free of many of the restraints of the old European society. Australia developed a comparable frontier life, and it had no entrenched aristocracy of the European sort.
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Volume 11, Issue 3, p. 741
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: Military Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 162
In: International Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 129
In: The Western political quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 263
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 3, p. 741
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 902
ISSN: 1938-274X