Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of "solidarity" and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S., U.K., Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands, Smith argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths in order to lead to a more balanced French society.
Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that ...
Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of "solidarity" and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S., U.K., Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands, Smith argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths in order to lead to a more balanced French society.
Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that ...
In this work, Timothy Smith argues that although post-World War II politicians have attempted to take credit for the creation of the welfare state, the social reform movement in France actually grew out of World War I. Smith shows that French social spending before World War II was well above the European average and demonstrates that the present welfare state is based on a structure that already existed but was expanded and consolidated with great political fanfare during the 1940s. Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity...
In this work, Timothy Smith argues that although post-World War II politicians have attempted to take credit for the creation of the welfare state, th...
"Timothy B. Smith has produced yet another well-researched, engaging book about the fascinating history of Civil War battlefields. This time his subject is Chickamauga, both the largest and first-established of the nation's Civil War parks. What happened after the battle and why is a well-crafted, compelling story." --James Lee McDonough A Chickamauga Memorial tells the full and fascinating story of how the country's first federally preserved national military park came into being and how it paved the way for all that came afterwards, including preservation efforts today. As Timothy...
"Timothy B. Smith has produced yet another well-researched, engaging book about the fascinating history of Civil War battlefields. This time his subje...
-When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the 'Great Commoner' of public life in his State, - wrote Mississippi's premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, -he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.- While George's prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (1826-1897) was -Mississippi's most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century.-
Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer...
-When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the 'Great Commoner' of public life in his State, - wrote Mississippi's premier historian D...
Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh "has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement . . . during the entire rebellion." In Rethinking Shiloh, Timothy B. Smith seeks to rectify these persistent myths and misunderstandings, arguing that some of Shiloh's story is either not fully examined or has been the result of a limited and narrow collective memory established decades ago. Continuing the work he began in The Untold Story of Shiloh, Smith delves even...
Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh "has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistentl...
