ISBN:
9780199739523
,
0199739528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 321 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Baldwin, Peter Narcissism of minor differences
DDC:
305.809
Keywords:
National characteristics, European
;
National characteristics, American
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
National characteristics, American
;
National characteristics, European
;
International relations
;
Europe Relations
;
United States
;
United States Relations
;
Europe
;
Europe
;
United States
;
Europe Relations
;
United States Relations
;
Europe
;
United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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