| Description |
xvii, 449 pages ; 24 cm |
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Pt. 1. The Walrus and the Carpenter -- 1. With God on Our Side -- 2. On the Beach -- 3. How They Hate Us -- Pt. 2. The Dread and Envy of Them All -- 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Greenwich -- 5. French Toast -- 6. The World Was Their Oyster -- 7. The Sinews of Power -- 8. The Playing Fields of Eton -- 9. Goldilocks and the West -- Pt. 3. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes -- 10. The Wasps and the Bees -- 11. The Vicar and the Dynamo -- 12. Doxy v. Doxy -- 13. The White Queen -- 14. Called to the Bar -- 15. The Gyroscope and the Pyramid -- Pt. 4. What Hath God Wrought? -- 16. The Meaning of History -- 17. War on History -- 18. The Golden Meme -- 19. Whig Babylon -- Pt. 5. The Lessons of History -- 20. The Future of Sea Power -- 21. Dancing with Ghosts -- 22. The Diplomacy of Civilizations -- 23. The Meaning of It All |
| Summary |
Economics |
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For 400 years the Anglo-Saxon powers - the UK and the US and their allies - have dominated the world, both militarily and economicall- y. They have won the wars time and time 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 business 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 though-provoking exploration of where we might be heading from here |
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International relations |
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Political science & theory |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419--430) and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- American influences.
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Civilization, Modern -- British influences.
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Economic history.
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Globalization.
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Great powers -- History.
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History, Modern.
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World politics.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Foreign public opinion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005785
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056684
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United States -- Foreign public opinion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140053
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Great Britain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719
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United States -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
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United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
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| ISBN |
9781843547235 |
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9781843547259 |
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