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The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream / Jeremy Rifkin.

Title
The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream / Jeremy Rifkin.
Author
Rifkin, Jeremy
Publication
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005, c2004.

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Description
viii, 434 p.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Reprint. Originally published: c2004.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-423) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 1585424358
  • 9781585424351
OCLC
61667550
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library