TY - BOOK ID - 77877468 TI - The narcissism of minor differences : how America and Europe are alike, an essay in numbers PY - 2009 SN - 0197562744 1282328964 9786612328961 0199739528 9780199739523 9780195391206 0195391209 9781282328969 6612328967 9780197562741 9780199836826 0199836825 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, European. KW - National characteristics, American. KW - American national characteristics KW - European national characteristics KW - Europe KW - United States KW - Relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877468 AB - There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. ER -