God and Gold : Britain, America and the making of the modern world
Author(s): Walter Russell Mead
"God and Gold" is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominated the world economically and militarily. For four hundred years, Britain, America and their allies have dominated the world both militarily and economically. They have won the wars - the hot wars, the cold wars and the trade wars - time and again; and yet the battle for hearts and minds has proved far harder to win. In "God and Gold", Walter Russell Mead examines why this has been the case and what the overwhelming ascendancy and concentration of power in the hands of 'les Anglo-Saxons' has meant for the direction of world history. In so doing, he sheds scintillating new light on the current political, economic and cultural climate, and suggests where we might be heading from here.
General Information
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- : Atlantic Books, Limited
- : Atlantic Books
- : 31 July 2008
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Walter Russell Mead
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 909.08
- : 480
More About The Product
"'Clever, malevolent and with spare time on his hands, Osama bin Laden is supposed to read a lot. If the CIA wants to demoralize and to distract him, it might make sure he gets a copy of Walter Russell Mead's new book.' Economist 'Mead is a scintillating writer.' Niall Ferguson, Financial Times 'Mead's is a huge subject, but he treats it with a light touch... Readers of this astute, informed and entertaining analysis may wonder whether it will stand up to the events that current and future events with throw at it. The best guess is that it will.' Robert Cole, The 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 and the Washington Post and is a contributing editor on the 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).
