Allan Carlson Lecture
April 29, 2011: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Allan Carlson’s lecture is titled, “Who Owns America? Agrarian Responses to Economic Crises of Yesterday and Today,” and is free and open to the public.
Carlson currently serves as Professor of History at Hillsdale College, and is President of the Howard Center. Born 1949 in Des Moines, Iowa, Carlson received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Augustana College (1971) and his Ph.D. in Modern European History from The Ohio University (1978). He is married and has four children.
Carlson is the author of ten books, including Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis, was published in 1988 by Transaction Press (Rutgers University). The University Bookman calls it "genuinely profound." The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis, came from Transaction in 1990. Reason magazine declares it "the social policy book of the year”; a Russian translation was published in 2009 by Idesis Press. From Cottage to Work Station: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age, appeared from Ignatius Press in 1993. Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies…And Why They Disappeared appeared from ISI Books in October 2007. “Remarkable and important…. Friends of liberty everywhere should read this book,” says Professor Patrick Deneen of Georgetown University.
For more information, please contact Brad Green, Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition (bgreen@uu.edu; 731-431-5928).
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