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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... Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems , 1998-2002 ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , Centre for International Crime Prevention ) as reported by NationMaster at http://www.nationmaster.com ; Pan - American ...
... crime in general , Mauricio Rubio found not only an increasing inci- dence of violent crime in Latin America during the 1990s but a much higher fre- quency of violence in crimes against property with levels of 50 per cent in Mexico and ...
... Crime : the Latin American Context , ' cited in L Piquet Carneiro ' Violent Crime in Latin American Cities : Rio de J and Sao P ' ( Washington DC 2000 ) , at p.26 and accessed at http://www.cerac.org.co ) . Child , Jack ( 1985 ) ...