The Founding Of New Societies: Studies in the History of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia

Author/Contributor(s):	Hartz, Louis
Publisher:	Mariner Books
Date:	10/22/1969
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Hartz elaborates his widly discussed "fragment theory" of new societies and projects some of its implications for the modern age.

The volume investigates five societies created by European migration: the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. The author analyzes how each detached culture froze its inherited ideology into an unyielding tradition, from Quebec to Sydney.

These settler offshoots preserved their historical points of departure apart from Old World renewals. This comparative inquiry charts the delayed rendezvous between those isolated communities and world revolution.

• Comparative Politics: The contributors examine how Latin America and French Canada inherited hierarchical Catholic institutions, contrasting them with the Lockean property foundations of the United States.
• Social History: The analysis explores how early Australian society developed from Chartist protest and penal settlements into a pioneering labour movement that sidelined the pastoral squattocracy.
• Colonialism: The study analyzes how Enlightenment concepts of equality provoked moral crises over slavery in the American South and native reserves in South Africa.
• Historiography: Developed from a 1961 Cambridge conference and Commonwealth Lectures in London, this work replaces Turner’s frontier thesis with a transatlantic theory of cultural fragmentation.