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" The narcissism of minor differences : "
Peter Baldwin.
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BL
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996675
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b751045
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| Main Entry
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Baldwin, Peter,1956-
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The narcissism of minor differences : : how America and Europe are alike : an essay in numbers /\ Peter Baldwin.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :: illustrations
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0199739528
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: 1282328964
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: 6612328967
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: 9780199739523
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: 9781282328969
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: 9786612328961
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0195391209
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9780195391206
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The economy -- Health care -- The rest of the welfare state -- Crime -- More broadly -- Education and the higher pursuits -- The environment -- Civil society -- Nationalism -- Religion and science -- Assimilation -- Lumping and splitting -- A meeting of the Twain? -- Separated at birth? -- The post-facto state -- How the West was one -- Acorn and oak.
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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. Drawing on th.
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National characteristics, American.
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National characteristics, European.
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International relations.
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National characteristics, American.
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National characteristics, European.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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Europe, Relations, United States.
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United States, Relations, Europe.
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Europe.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.809
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D2021.B34 2009eb
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