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God and gold : Britain, America, and the making of the modern world / Walter Russell Mead.

Mead, Walter Russell.
2007
327.73 M479g 2007
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Title
God and gold : Britain, America, and the making of the modern world / Walter Russell Mead.
Author
Mead, Walter Russell.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780375414039
0375414037
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007.
Language
English
Description
x, 449 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
327.73 M479g 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)141384600
(OCoLC)141384600
Summary
"An illuminating account of the birth, the rise, and the continuing rise, of a global political and economic system that rested first on the power of Britain and rests today on that of the United States--and now faces a new set of formidable challenges"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-430) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
PART ONE: THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER: With God on our side
On the beach
How they hate us
PART TWO: THE DREAD AND ENVY OF THEM ALL: The protocols of the elders of Greenwich
French toast
The world was their oyster
The sinews of power
The playing fields of Eton
Goldilocks and the West
PART THREE: ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES: The wasps and the bees
The vicar and the dynamo
Doxy v. Doxy
The White queen
Called to the bar
The gyroscope and the pyramd
PART FOUR: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? : The meaning of history
War on history
The golden meme
Whig Babylon
PART FIVE: THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: The future of sea power
Dancing with ghosts
The diplomacy of civilizations
The meaning of it all.
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