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—Elle
Grim and thoughtful. . . . A clear-headed incisive diagnosis of the many ethnic ills of the globalizing era.”
—Mother Jones
Clear and persuasive. . . . Chua is a careful, precise writer.”
—Salon
Chua’s book is a lucid, powerfully argued, and important contribution to the debate over the forces and factors shaping the twenty-first-century world.”
—Strobe Talbott, president, The Brookings Institution, and coeditor of
The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11
A cogent analysis . . . convincingly reason[ed].”
—Boston Herald
Chua offers a fundamentally new perspective on how to help sustain globalization by spreading its benefits while curbing its most destructive aspects. . . . Compelling.”
—The Tampa Tribune
Remarkably illuminating. . . . I cannot think of another work over the past couple of decades that reveals more about the disturbing persistence internationally of racial and ethnic conflicts.”
—Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Drawing on examples from Burma to Bolivia, Chua paints a nuanced picture of ethnic and national fault lines. . . . [She] fleshes out the idea that globalization is not a magical elixir for developing nations.”
—Newsweek
A barrage of examples supports Chua’s thesis, each described with careful consideration of the different circumstances of different nations. . . . [T]old with a dramatic flair.”
—The Weekly Standard
The greatest tribute to any book is the conviction upon closing it that the senseless finally makes sense. That’s the feeling left by Amy Chua’s World on Fire.”
—The Washington Post
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2004
Copyright © 2003, 2004 by Amy Chua
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2003.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Excerpts from Another Day of Life copyright © 1987, 1976 by Ryszard Kapu´sci´nski; English translation copyright © 1987 by Harcourt, Inc., reprinted by permission of the publisher.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Chua, Amy.
World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability /
Amy Chua.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. International economic relations.
2. Globalization.
3. Ethnic conflict.
HF1359 .C524 2003
303.6—21
2002067676
Anchor eISBN: 1-4000-7637-4
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Title:
World On Fire
Creator:
Amy Chua
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Format:
OEB
Date:
2004-01-08
Subject:
Economics
Identifier:
Chua_1400076374
Language:
US English
Rights:
Copyright 2004
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred
PART ONE
1 Rubies and Rice Paddies
2 Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno
3 The Seventh Oligarch
4 The “Ibo of Cameroon”
PART TWO
5 Backlash against Markets
6 Backlash against Democracy
7 Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities
8 Mixing Blood
PART THREE
9 The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy
10 The Middle Eastern Cauldron
11 Why They Hate Us
12 The Future of Free Market Democracy
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Acclaim for Amy Chua’s WORLD ON FIRE
Copyright Page
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