Product Description: 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 World? In this book, Lawrence E...read more

Product Description: "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 Third World...read more

Product Description: 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.

Probing the difficult questions of why some modern industrialized nations are more successful than others at providing basic freedoms and a decent standard of living to their people, the author looks to the cultural values underpinning societies, arguing that they are the key to understanding the success or failure of the 'developed' nation. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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 prosperous first-world countries with centuries-old democratic institutions; Latin America’s countries are poor and, in most cases, experimenting with democratic capitalism for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What lies behind America’s economic and social decline? Can racism explain the ghetto tragedy if two-thirds of America’s blacks have made it into the middle class? Why have Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrants done so much better than Mexicans? According to Lawrence E...read more