Reprint. Originally published: c2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-423) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- NEW LESSONS FROM THE OLD WORLD: The slow death of the American dream -- The new land of opportunity -- The quiet economic miracle -- THE MAKING OF THE MODERN AGE: Space, time, and modernity -- Creating the individual -- Inventing the ideology of property -- Forging capitalist markets and nation-states -- THE COMING GLOBAL ERA: Network commerce in a globalized economy -- The "United States" of Europe -- Government without a center -- Romancing the civil society -- The immigrant dilemma -- Unity in diversity -- Waging peace -- A second enlightenment -- Universalizing the European Union.
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