World on fire : how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability / Amy Chua.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2004Edition: First Anchor Books editionDescription: ix, 346 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0534522904
- 9780534522902
- 0385721862
- 9780385721868
- 303.6 21
- HF1359 .C524 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.6 CHU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A260278B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-333) and index.
Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred -- Pt. 1. The Economic Impact of Globalization -- 1. Rubies and Rice Paddies: Chinese Minority Dominance in Southeast Asia -- 2. Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno: "White" Wealth in Latin America -- 3. The Seventh Oligarch: The Jewish Billionaires of Post-Communist Russia -- 4. The "Ibo of Cameroon": Market-Dominant Minorities in Africa -- Pt. 2. The Political Consequences of Globalization -- 5. Backlash against Markets: Ethnically Targeted Seizures and Nationalizations -- 6. Backlash against Democracy: Crony Capitalism and Minority Rule -- 7. Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities: Expulsions and Genocide -- 8. Mixing Blood: Assimilation, Globalization, and the Case of Thailand -- Pt. 3. Ethnonationalism and the West -- 9. The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy: From Jim Crow to the Holocaust -- 10. The Middle Eastern Cauldron: Israeli Jews as a Regional Market-Dominant Minority -- 11. Why They Hate Us: America as a Global Market-Dominant Minority -- 12. The Future of Free Market Democracy.
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