God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead
For four hundred years the Anglo-Saxon powers - the UK and the US and their allies - have dominated the world, both militarily and economically. They have won the wars time and 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 businesses 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 thought-provoking exploration of where we might be heading from here.
'Mead [is] one of the country's liveliest thinkers about America's role in the world' New York Times Book Review 'A remarkable accomplishment... [Mead] is a brilliant scholar.' LA Times
Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for foreign policy at the US Council on Foreign Relations. He writes regularly for Foreign Affairs, as well as for the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World (2001) and Power, Terror, Peace and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843547235 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843547236 |
| Title | God and Gold |
| Author | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2007-11-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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