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This short booklet, taken from a talk given by Thomas Madden in 2015, offers a fresh perspective on the Crusades. The commonly held belief is that the Crusades are to blame for the current tensions between Islam and the rest of the world - that Islam was a peaceful place before the Crusaders arrived and taught the Muslims to be warlike. Trying to close the gap between historical understanding and popular perception, Madden shows that it's not the Crusades that led to the conflict between the Muslim Middle East and the West, but the "artificial memory" of the Crusades passed down by Arab nationalists and Islamists

1. Empires of Trust . . . and the Other Ones 1. - 2. Distrusting Kings 21. - 3. Family Values 38. - 4. Building an Empire While Trying Not To 63. - 5. Becoming a Superpower 85. - 6. The Empire and Its Aging Cultural Parents 113. - 7. How an Empire of Trust Grows . . . and Grows 160. - 8. Pax 196. - 9. Fights Around the Dinner Table of Empire 230. - 10. The Threat of Terrorism 251. - 11. Crying Over the Fall 290

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Author -- 1 - Income Inequality, Earnings Inequality, and Poverty -- 2 - Why Poverty Rates and Income and Earnings Distributions Change: A Survey of Explanations -- 3 - The Data and the Variables -- 4 - Measuring Effects of MSA Characteristics on Income Distribution -- 5 - Sources of Household Income Inequality -- 6 - A More Detailed Study of Household Income and Individual Earnings Inequality -- 7 - Sources of MSA Poverty -- 8 - The Concentration of Poverty in the Central City -- 9 - The Role of the Macro-Environment in Poverty and Household Income Inequality -- Appendix - Supplementary Tables -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Institute.