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God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Mead, Walter Russell

 
9781843547235: God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World
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ISBN 10 : 1843547236 ISBN 13 : 9781843547235
Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2007

Synopsis

For four hundred years the Anglo-Saxon powers - the UK and the US and their allies - have dominated the world, both militarily and economically. They have won the wars time and again - and yet the battle for hearts and minds has proved far harder to win. This brilliantly stimulating and provocative book explores why this has been the case: why - from the time of Louis XIV to today's Iraq - British and American armies and businesses have been so successful, yet so much of the world has remained so resistant to their values and ideas.

Mead argues that modern history has been shaped by a series of wars in which Britain and America have faced down one enemy after another, enemies that have rejected and feared their values, their capitalism, liberalism, arrogance, religion and power. He explores the struggles for values that have lain behind these conflicts and asks why, despite all their victories, Anglo-Americans have never succeeded in establishing the peaceful world, safe for democracy and capitalism, that they have hoped for.

His book is both an examination of what this overwhelming concentration of power in the hands of 'les Anglo-Saxons' has meant for the direction of world history, and a deeply thought-provoking exploration of where we might be heading from here.

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À propos de l'auteur

Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A Kissinger Senior Fellow for foreign policy at the US Council on Foreign Relations. He writes regularly for Foreign Affairs, as well as for the New York Times and the Washington Post and is a contributing editor on the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World (2001) and Power, Terror, Peace and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (2005). God and Gold was published by Atlantic in 2007.

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Éditeur
Atlantic Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843547236
ISBN 13 
9781843547235
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
320
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