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Article: Rise and rise of the west.(Book review)
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- National Review
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- December 17, 2007
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead (Knopf, 464 pp., $27.95)
THE subtitle of Walter Russell Mead's 2001 work, Special Providence, was "American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World." His present book is no less ambitious, comprising nothing less than an all-embracing explanation for why the modern world is as it is.
"God and Gold" sums the theory up perfectly. The way that the British and the Americans worshipped God in their Protestant, private, primarily non-confessional way promoted individual conscience as the key factor in religion, rather than the ...
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