The great seesaw : a new view of the western world, 1750-2000
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The great seesaw : a new view of the western world, 1750-2000
Macmillan, 1988
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Includes Bibliography and index
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内容説明
An argument for the existence of a mental see saw which in the last 250 years has affected a wide range of human attitudes and activities. When the see saw tilts to extreme optimism or pessimism, all kinds of attitudes, normally seen as unconnected, move too. A variety of intellectual activities and movements are partly under the sway of the seesaw, but its powerful influence is rarely noticed. A knowledge of the see saw helps to explain events that seem as far apart as the oil crisis of the 1970s and the counter culture of the 1960s, the high confidence of the mid-nineteenth century and the Cult of the Noble Savage in the era of Rousseau and Captain Cook. The author argues that the present economic crisis has close links with the see saw, though the see saw itself is more than an economic mechanism.
目次
- Part 1: happy isle
- the best is yet to be
- a pocket watch for progress
- will the west decline?
- temple of the wild
- cold and white - the role of climate and race
- the Great War and other half-shocks. Part 2 The beckoning moon
- the king is dying - the swing against technology
- rise of the counter culture
- the return of the noble savage
- voyage to the "Ocean of Misery"
- oil crisis - a turning point. Part 3 the long economic waves
- the magic of new found lands
- the puzzle of the seesaw.
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