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Decline & Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide Hardback - 2007

by Bruce S. Thornton

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Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis predicts that in 50 years Europe will be an Islamic society, which is to say Europe will culturally disappear. In this penetrating and provocative book, Thornton shows how Europe reached this pass and analyzes what Europes decline means for the U.S.

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Once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. Sluggish economic growth, high unemployment, an addiction to expensive social welfare entitlements, a dwindling birth-rate among native Europeans, and most important, an increasing Islamic immigrant population chronically underemployed yet demographically prolific--all point to a future in which Europe will be transformed beyond recognition, a shrinking museum culture riddled with ever-expanding Islamist enclaves. Decline and Fall tells the story of this decline by focusing on the larger cultural dysfunctions behind the statistics. The abandonment of the Christian tradition that created the West's most cherished ideals--a radical secularism evident in Europe's indifference to God and church--created a vacuum of belief into which many pseudo-religions have poured. Scientism, fascism, communism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, sheer hedonism-- all have attempted and failed, sometimes bloodily, to provide Europeans with an alternative to Christianity that can show them what is worth living and dying for. Meanwhile a resurgent Islam, feeding off the economic and cultural marginalization of European Muslims, knows all too well not just what is worth dying for, but what is worth killing for. Crippled by fashionable self-loathing and fantasies of multicultural inclusiveness, Europeans have met this threat with capitulation instead of strength, appeasement and apologies instead of the demand that immigrants assimilate. As Decline and Fall shows, Europe's solution to these ills--a larger and more powerful European Union--simply exacerbates the problems, for the EU cannot address the absence of a unifying belief that can spur Europe even to defend itself, let alone to recover its lost grandeur. As these problems worsen, Europe will face an unappetizing choice between two somber destinies: a violent nationalistic or nativist reaction, or, more likely, a long descent into cultural senescence and slow-motion suicide.

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  • Title Decline & Fall: Europe's Slow Motion Suicide
  • Author Bruce S. Thornton
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Encounter Books, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Publication date November 13, 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781594032066 / 1594032068
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.4 x 0.76 in (23.32 x 16.26 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Europe - Civilization - 1945-, National characteristics, European
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007032307
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.561

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 34

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