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Author Mead, Walter Russell.

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

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  327.73 MEAD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  327.73 MEAD    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  327.73 M479G    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 449 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations.
Civilization, Modern -- American influences.
Civilization, Modern -- British influences.
United States -- Foreign public opinion.
Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion.
Great powers -- History.
World politics.
Economic history.
ISBN 9780375414039
0375414037
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