ISBN:
9780197562741
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 321 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
305.809
Keywords:
Kulturvergleich
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
National characteristics, European
;
National characteristics, American
;
USA
;
Europa
;
Europe Relations
;
United States Relations
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2009
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195391206.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195391206.001.0001
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