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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... hemisphere was established just at the very moment when comparative and hemispheric approaches to American history might have been most appropriate and fruitful . Awareness of the historical contingency of this conceptual division of ...
... hemisphere as a whole may plead guilty to the charge levelled by Felipe Fernández - Arnesto that , when contemplating the history of the Americas , ' conscious as we are of the might and magnetism of the United States today ... we ...
... hemisphere and very different from those in Europe or in global relations between major powers . There has been more emphasis on law and organization , more intrusive and coercive great power management , less war and virtually no ...