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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... extent to which the seemingly natural division came about as a consequence of the play of Great Power politics , to explain how , once established , it was bound to rele- gate any twentieth - century project of a common American history ...
... extent of their political kinship with Latin American liberal elites or succeed in capitalizing upon it . Prussians and Protestants It had become orthodoxy , by the early twentieth century , that the economic lead of the north dated ...
... extent : that he failed to observe that the critical determinant of non - assimilation in the Americas has been the racialization of minorities . Ethnic and linguistic differences may be overcome . In this sense Argentina , Brazil ...