Transatlantic divide
Subtitle: comparing American and European society
By: editor, Alberto Martinelli
Contributors: Martinelli, Alberto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780199204526; 9780199204533
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; European Union countries -- Civilization -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-; European Union countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; European Union countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-; European Union countries -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The European Union and the United States as two variants of Western modernity / Alberto Martinelli; title: The economic sphere / Antonio M. Chiesi; title: Inequality / Paul W. Kingston and Laura M. Holian; title: Family / Theodore Caplow and Salustiano Del Campo; title: Politics and institutional architectures / Alberto Martinelli; title: Welfare / Gérard Cornilleau; title: Value change / Michel Forsé and Maxime Parodi; title: Religion / Mathias Bös and Kai Hebel; title: Cities / Patrick Le Galès and Mathieu Zagrodzki; title: The American and the European models of society : not so different after all / Alberto Martinelli; title: Appendix with a synthetic picture of the most relevent trends / Laurence Duboys Fresney