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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... effectively is through language . Once a visionary has people talking as though utopia were a real possibility the battle is half won . Conversely , one of the most insidious forms in which power can be exerted is by making it hard to ...
... effectively against a rapidly expanding United States and , from 1880 , the Europeans failed adequately to reassure the USA that their ' New Imperialism ' posed no threat to the hemisphere . The common - sense view , that the United ...
... effectively for the persistence of Christianity in spite of the immigration of non - Christian groups . He points to the steady decline of Judaism in the USA from four per cent in the 1920s to two per cent by the late 1990s and to the ...