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Why does one period of modern history feel optimistic and another period feel pessimistic? Why does a mood persist for decades and then change with surprising speed? Will for example the loss of confidence, visible in the western world since the late 1960s, continue into the 1990s?
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Sir Henry Maine, Rede Lecture, in Village Communities in the East and the West (London, 3rd edn, 1876 ).
K. Marx and F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, in Lewis S. Feuer, Marx and Engels (Fontana paperback, 1969 ) p. 82.
T. B. Macaulay, History of England (Everyman edn, 1957 ) vol. 1, p. 2.
John Carroll, Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive: A Sociology of Modern Culture (London, 1977) ch. 5.
The generation gap: Annie Kriegel, ‘Generational Difference: The History of an Idea’, Daedalus (Fall 1978) esp. pp. 29–31
Joseph Adelson, What Generation Gap? Dialogue (1976) vol 9, pp. 24–32.
David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd (New York, 1950) esp. ch. 1.
Belief in the period 1860–1914 that wars would be short: G. Blainey, The Causes of War (London, 1973 ) pp. 206–17.
John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (London, 1936) p.384.
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Blainey, G. (1988). The Puzzle of The Seesaw. In: The Great Seesaw. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10086-6_17
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