THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIANISM by Robert William Fogel ( 9780226256634 )

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Title:

THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIANISM

By:

Robert William Fogel

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Paperback

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0226256634

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2002

Pages:

383

Description:

In his most ambitious book since "Time on the Cross, " the Nobel Prize-winning economist looks to the nation's past to discover the strong link between technologically induced cycles of religiousness--or "awakenings"--in American history and attitudes toward poverty, education, and social equality. Line drawings. Tables.

Synopsis:

In this broad-thinking and profound piece of history, Robert William Fogel synthesizes an amazing range of data into a bold and intriguing view of America's past and future - one in which the periodic Great Awakenings of religion bring about waves of social reform, the material lives of even the poorest Americans improve steadily, and the nation now stands poised for a renewed burst of egalitarian progress.

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11 line drawings, 18 tables

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University of Chicago Press

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