Longing for the end : a history of millennialism in western civilization
- Responsibility
- Frederic J. Baumgartner.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Imprint
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Physical description
- xi, 286 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Baumgartner, Frederic J.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276) and index.
- Publisher's Summary
- A history of millennialist thought analyzes the religious and philosophical threads behind the belief, that the world will end in the year 2000, identifying the role such thinking may have played in the Crusades and Marxism.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1999
- ISBN
- 0312210922
- 9780312210922
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