Lawrence Harrison: 9 books
by T. Lawrence Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
"THE STRONGEST LOVE..." has as its tag line the observation of W. Somerset Maugham that "The love that is the strongest is the love that is not returned." Following the format of Emile Zola's "For a Night of Love" its author T. Lawrence Harrison begins with the title novella: The powerful and...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
The Central Liberal Truth
How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First...
Jews, Confucians, and Protestants
Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
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...
The Pan-american Dream
Do Latin America's Cultural Values Discourage True Partnership With The United States And Canada?
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
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...
Developing Cultures
Essays on Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
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...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
Developing Cultures
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2006
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.
Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind
The Latin American Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
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.