The Great Seesaw - A New View Of The Western World, 1750 - 2000

Blainey argues that Western civilisation has repeatedly oscillated between periods of buoyant confidence (technology, progress, expansion, economic growth) and periods of deep pessimism (counter-culture, environmental anxiety, economic crisis). These swings are not isolated events, they are interconnected expressions of a broader psychological climate. 
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