Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Caldwell, Christopher

Verlag: Doubleday, New York, 2009

Beschreibung

As new condition navy blue boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by W.H. Auden; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. "Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no. Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution. Christopher Caldwell has been reporting on the politics and culture of Islam in Europe for more than a decade. His deeply researched and insightful new book reveals a paradox. Since World War II, mass immigration has been made possible by Europe's enforcement of secularism, tolerance, and equality. But when immigrants arrive, they are not required to adopt those values. And they are disinclined to, since they already have values of their own. Islam has challenged the European way of life at every turn, becoming, in effect, an "adversary culture." The result? In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Caldwell reveals the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He describes guest worker programs that far outlasted their economic justifications, and asylum policies that have served illegal immigrants better than refugees. He exposes the strange ways in which welfare states interact with Third World customs, the anti-Americanism that brings European natives and Muslim newcomers together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart. He considers the appeal of sharia, "resistance," and jihad to a second generation that is more alientated from Europe than the first, and addresses a crisis of faith among native Europeans that leaves them with a weak hand as they confront the claims of newcomers. As increasingly assertive immigrant populations challenge the foundations of European culture, commentators have reacted with fear and fury on the one hand and evasive platitudes on the other. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe does neither. With its meticulous research, wide scope, and deep moral seriousness, it is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007450

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: ...

Verlag: Doubleday, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Wilson, Gabriele (jacket design)

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition