Allan G Carlson

Allan C. Carls

Allan C. Carlson (born Des Moines, Iowa, 1949) is a scholar and professor of ... Carlson earned his B. A. from Augustana College and his Ph.D. in European...

Fractured Generations: Crafting A Family Policy For Twenty-First Century America

The Family in America: Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age

Competition or Compulsion?: The Market Economy Versus the New Social Engineering

Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis

From Cottage to Work Station: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age

Conjugal America : On the Public Purposes of Marriage

The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis

Fractured Generations: Crafting a Family Policy for Twenty-First-Century America

Fifty years ago, the phrase "family policy" was rarely heard in America. Individual states maintained laws governing marriage, divorce, education, inheritance, and child protection, which regulated the formation, childrearing practices, and dissolution of families. However, these scattered policy is...

Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis

How is it that the United States, long considered one of the most family-centered countries, has experienced a social upheaval of the last 25 years, amounting to an unraveling of its basic social order? And why is it that ideologues of the 1960s and the early 1970s found such common cause in their...

Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973

Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders eventually followed the mainstream into a ...

The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of urbanism, and the closing of the frontier, the agrarian sector became an economic and cultural minority...

The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis

This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science. It portrays how these two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a new domestic order in Sweden. The book focuses on the Myrdals' unique fusion of so...

The Family in America: Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age

The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state. Allan Carlson shows that the United States, rather than being "born modern" as a progr...

The Natural Family Where It Belongs: New Agrarian Essays

The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the “sexual” merges with the “economic” through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-...

Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies - And Why They Disappeared (Culture of Enterprise)

Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great Britain created economic...