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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... imperial authorities and religious orders had been inclined , albeit imperfectly and inconsistently , to offer protection to native peoples and to con- strain the behaviour of colonists toward them . They did this either from consid ...
... imperial powers ; and the last point to make about the distinctiveness of international relations in the Americas is , bluntly , that they have long been imperial in a way that world politics are only now , and haltingly , becoming imperial ...
... imperial state . Yet this closer relationship leaves open the ques- tion of government , which may be either direct or indirect . In the former , met- ropolitan law , education , and administration is imposed on the subject state ; in ...