@article{365556,
      recid = {739751},
      author = {Barton, Greg},
      title = {Informal empire and the rise of one world culture  [electronic resource] /},
      number = {365556},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that  explains much of the configuration of the modern world as  it is today. This book traces the broad and undeniable  outline of westernization through elite formations around  the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is  western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the  iceberg of British and American power. Barton examines how  the imperial web of influence can justly be said to have  revolutionized human thought and culture at every level and  in every location. He concludes by warning that the open  elites that characterized the Victorian age have given way  to closed elites that manipulate the levers of the imperial  web to the detriment of meaningful culture and human  liberty.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/739751},
}