Tangled Destiny
Subtitle: France, Europe and the Anglo-Saxons
Publisher: Thumbnail Publications
Published: July 14, 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780955022319
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Europe
First sentence: History is made up of long cycles and brief episodes.
Description: An attempt to unravel two threads of History. The first is the story of how a model of life, society and economics based on the liberalism of Victorian England went around the world to become the all-embracing globalization of the twenty-first century. The second is about how France took the leadership of a project to build Europe that lost its way.
Notes: Illustrative quotes drawn from  Voltaire, Rousseau, Alexis de Toqueville,  Ralph Waldo Emerson,Tom  Paine and others.
Table of contents: title: Europe past and present; title: A time to choose