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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... empire in the Americas , was a centralized state dependent on the extraction of revenues from the periphery by an extensive and consistent bureaucracy . He contrasted this with a much weaker English state that perforce allowed its ...
... empire , like Spain itself , lacked centralized and uniform modern administration , the very substantial commissions accruing to local elites from inter - regional transfers and state procurement and the evident success of a ...
Charles A. Jones. It is helpful to distinguish here between formal and informal empire on the one hand , and direct and indirect rule on the other . In a relationship of informal empire , the influence upon a nominally autonomous subject ...