Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“lawrence e harrison”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lawrence e harrison”
Skip side bar filters

  • Developing Cultures

    Case Studies

    by Lawrence E. Harrison, Peter Berger ...
    Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Central Liberal Truth

    How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind

    The Latin American Case

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Originally published in 1985, Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind_ was one of the first studies to examine Latin America's rocky development as cultural, rather than colonial, byproduct. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Pan-american Dream

    Do Latin America's Cultural Values Discourage True Partnership With The United States And Canada?

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    The initiative of Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton to forge a Western Hemisphere community has been staggered by Mexico's economic and political crisis. Is this latest grand design for the hemisphere destined to follow John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress and Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy into the cemetery of frustrated Pan-American dreams? The United States and Canada are ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Central Liberal Truth

    How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Jews, Confucians, and Protestants

    Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures are more prone to progress than others and more successful at creating the cultural capital that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Developing Cultures

    Essays on Cultural Change

    by Lawrence E. Harrison, Jerome Kagan ...
    Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century

    Updated and Revised Edition

    by Luis Alberto Romero ...
    Translated by James P. Brennan ...
    A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the country faces as it tries to rebuild democracy. Luis Alberto Romero brilliantly and painstakingly ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mexico

    Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor

    by Ramon Ruiz ...
    Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Case of the Catalans

    Why So Many Catalans No Longer Want to be Part of Spain

    Edited by Clara Ponsatí ...
    Imagine if your country voted to become independent, that vote was then ignored and its political leaders imprisoned or exiled.Following Catalonia's independence referendum, Clara Ponsatí, Education Minister, along with Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont were charged with sedition. They had to leave Catalonia and go into self-imposed exile, and seven of their former cabinet colleagues were ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Latin America

    1970 to the Present

    by Robert H. Holden, Rina Villars ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region, and beyond.Provides a fresh approach and a new interpretation of the seismic changes of the last 40 years in Latin AmericaIntroduces major themes from a humanistic and universal perspective, ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Last Empire

    Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonization

    Edited by António Costa Pinto, Stewart Lloyd-Jones ...
    This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonisation, which was then 25 years old, and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD