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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... cities - Moscow , Helsinki and Lisbon - could come anywhere near the nine United States cities included in the poll.63 The violence of American cities is not something that has emerged within the last thirty or forty years , though in ...
... cities and encourage the development of ghettoes there , almost as protective stockades . Another , more insidious consequence may have been to instil a reactive violence in black cul- ture itself of which the plot of John Edgar ...
... cities and at its core . Viewed Huntington's way , it is most itself at the frontier . This is not helpful , because no frontier can be drawn around Islam or Christianity or any other world religion , let alone around the powerful ...