TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mead,Walter Russell
TI  - God and gold: Britain, America, and the making of the modern world 
SN  - 9780375414039
AV  - 002 E 183.7 M479g 2008
U1  - 327.73 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - American influences
KW  - British influences
KW  - Great powers
KW  - History
KW  - World politics
KW  - Economic history
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Foreign public opinion
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 419-430) e índice; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -