The Global Condition
Subtitle: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780691086484
Subjects: History: theory & methods; World history; History: World; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); History - General History; Social history; World - General; Frontier and pioneer life; Civilization; Emigration and immigration; History
First sentence: IN THE LATTER part of the nineteenth century, east coast city dwellers in the United States had difficulty repressing a sense of their own persistent cultural inferiority vis-a-vis London and Paris.