God and Gold
Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World
Published on 4. September 2014
480 pages
978-1-78239-600-0 (ISBN)
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Economist Books of the Year, 2007
Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007
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.
Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 *
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Main
Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-600-0 (9781782396000)
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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 Postand 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).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the UK edition
- Introduction
- Strong and Wrong
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
- The Dread and Envy of Them All
- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
- What Hath God Wrought?
- The Lessons of History
- Conclusion
- Part One: The Walrus and the Carpenter
- One: With God on Our Side
- Two: On the Beach
- The Trueborn Englishman
- Horsa and Hengist
- Three: How They Hate Us
- The World of the Waspophobe
- The Long War
- Part Two: The Dread and Envy of Them All
- Four: The Protocols of the Elders of Greenwich
- "I Have Always Honored the King of Spain"
- Westward the Course
- Five: French Toast
- The Great Antagonist
- Six: The World Was Their Oyster
- The Great Diaspora
- The Other British Empire
- The Invisible Empire
- Seven: The Sinews of Power
- Private Credit
- Consumer Credit
- The Bank of America
- Eight: The Playing Fields of Eton
- To Pepsi from Pepys
- The Travel Revolution
- Information
- Popular Culture
- Occam's Razor
- A League of Their Own
- Nine: Goldilocks and the West
- How Did She Do It?
- Getting It Right
- Part Three: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
- Ten: The Wasps and the Bees
- Eleven: The Vicar and the Dynamo
- Things Fall Apart
- Twelve: Doxy v. Doxy
- Thirteen: The White Queen
- Dynamic Religion, Dynamic Society
- Fourteen: Called to the Bar
- The Call of Abraham
- Fifteen: The Gyroscope and the Pyramid
- The Transformation of Tradition
- The Renewal of Revelation
- The Rise and Fall of Reason
- The Trumpet Sounds Retreat
- Moving Forward, Looking Back
- Part Four: What Hath God Wrought?
- Sixteen: The Meaning of History
- The Father of History
- The Fourth Faith
- Seventeen: War on History
- Modern History
- War on History
- Eighteen: The Golden Meme
- The Invisible Hand
- Whig History
- The Chosen People
- Nineteen: Whig Babylon
- Different Rules
- Culture Clash
- Part Five: The Lessons of History
- Twenty: The Future of Sea Power
- America in Decline?
- "How to Be Topp"
- The Five-Point Plan
- Twenty-one: Dancing with Ghosts
- The Cattle Killing
- Crisis of Civilizations
- Twenty-two: The Diplomacy of Civilizations
- Twenty-three: The Meaning of It All
- The Permanent Revolution
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Also by Walter Russell Mead
- Copyright
