The narcissism of minor differences :: how America and Europe are alike : an essay in numbers /

There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-r...

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1. Verfasser: Baldwin, Peter, 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung:There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. Drawing on th.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199739523
0199739528
1282328964
9781282328969
9786612328961
6612328967
9780197562741
0197562744

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