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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
God and Gold Britain America and the Making of the Modern World Author:Walter Russell Mead A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. — The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal... more » democratic system has been repeatedly challenged -- by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda -- and for the most part, it has prevailed. But the current conflicts in the Middle East threaten to change that record unless we foster a deeper understanding of the conflicts between the liberal world system and its foes.« less
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