The Great Seesaw: A New View of the Western World, 1750-2000
by Blainey, Geoffrey
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0333477618
- ISBN 13
- 9780333477618
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
South Melbourne: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second impression. "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." (publisher's blurb
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016976
- Title
- The Great Seesaw: A New View of the Western World, 1750-2000
- Author
- Blainey, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0333477618
- ISBN 13
- 9780333477618
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company of Australia
- Place of Publication
- South Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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