Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s including Jose Bove dismantled the new local McDonald s. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S....
Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers w...
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary relevance: empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. These essays, which Lebovics wrote over the past decade, demonstrate the impressive intellectual range of his work. Focusing primarily on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, he shows how empire and its repercussions have pervaded and corroded Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Some essays explore why...
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary releva...
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary relevance: empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. These essays, which Lebovics wrote over the past decade, demonstrate the impressive intellectual range of his work. Focusing primarily on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, he shows how empire and its repercussions have pervaded and corroded Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Some essays explore why...
In this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary releva...
Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business and organized labor, the middle classes in Weimar Germany longed for a solution to their plight that neither the capitalism nor the socialism of their day could offer. This work examines the attempts of a number of scholars and publicists--Sombart, Salin, Spann, Niekisch, Spengler, and Fried-to provide such a solution in the form of an ideology of social conservatism.
Originally published in 1969.
The Princeton Legacy Library...
Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business a...
