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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... colonies in North America , mostly founded by religious dissidents , gained in some measure from an autonomy that arose from the relative weakness and inefficiency of the British state , where the historic compromise of the Glorious ...
... colonies . These longstanding enmities were supported on both sides by propaganda , that of Protestants and liberal Spaniards against the Roman Catholic Church being summed up in the so - called Black Legend , with its emphasis on the ...
... colonies from which it had been formed ; and the absur- dity of power balancing in North America was finally demonstrated by the tragi- comic French attempt , in 1862-3 , to establish a second Mexican Empire governed by a Habsburg ...