' Hailing from Korea, Bolivia, and Libya, these families have stories that illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and racial and cultural stereotyping.
A Nation of Nations
Several other individuals not already noted warrant special mention: Jorge CañizaresEsquerra, Arif Dirlik, Florencia Mallon, Steve J. Stern, Colleen Dunlavy, Susan SleeperSmith, Selçuk Esenbel, Jeffrey Herf, and the seventy foreign and ...
But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writers and scholars give engaging, often passionate accounts of their own nation’s history.
A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.
In The Size of Nations, they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity.
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...
Ferguson also writes: Europeans not only work less; they also pray less—and believe less. There was a time when Europe could justly refer to itself as “Chris— tendom.” Europeans built the continent's loveliest edifices to ac— commodate ...
Michaels, "Local Colors," 741, 744. 93. "Bush and McCain"; Riskind, "Gore Calls Bush." The Republican candidate John McCain later recanted his position, explaining that his Confederate ancestors "fought to sever the union of our great ...
Economic policies are powerful. They can impoverish people or help them to create enormous wealth. Genetski sifts through the evidence from forty countries - large and small, rich and poor.