American CivilizationInstitute for the Study of the Americas, 2007 - 105 páginas This thought-provoking book demonstrates that, far from being a unique entity, the United States is the most American of nations. It shares with its neighbors to the south an aspiration for equal opportunities and freedoms in a society both defined and divided by race. As Charles A. Jones points out, the United States is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by the greater material capabilities it has been able to apply to this historic task. Although it is sometimes regarded as Western, Jones points out the extremes to which the United States differs from Western Europe: from distinctive levels and styles of religiosity to public violence to respect for law to concern with material accumulation. These traits, far from constituting a claim to exceptionality, bind the U.S. firmly to the rest of the American hemisphere. In fact, Jones argues, it was separated only by the strange accident of historiography that created a Latin America little more than a century ago. He projects that these perceived differences between the United States and its southern neighbors will fade in the near future, and looks forward to a truly inclusive America. |
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... civil and political rights that is not yet won . Social Violence These racial struggles invite discussion of a third feature of contemporary America , alongside religiosity and the racialization of cultural difference , that links North ...
... civil nuclear technology developed by the existing nuclear - weapons states . Many Latin American states adhered promptly to the 1968 Treaty , but Argentina and Brazil did not , locked as they were in a military confrontation that would ...
... civil or violent than Europeans , but that the complex rela- tions between public violence , political constitution , citizenship and the rule of law that obtain in the Americas have a style of their own that is distinguishable from the ...